Ubuntu
nvidia-settings package

  1. Bug #286424
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 286424

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Alan Lord (theopensourcerer) wrote :

I have just updated (and rebooted just to be sure).

The menu entry: "System->Administration->NVIDIA X Server Settings" does not ask for a super-user pasword. So consequently it can't write to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will greatly confuse non-technical users and there is no sensible message to explain the problem either:

"Unable to create new X config backup file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'."

doesn't exactly tell the whole story now does it?