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nvidia-settings package

  1. Bug #286424
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 286424

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Daniel Holbert (dholbert) wrote :

There's actually a HUGELY simple fix for this.

The error message given indicates that xorg.conf is failing to validate because "Screen" doesn't reference a device, basically.

You can fix this by adding this line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, under Section "Screen":
        Device "Default Device"

(where "Default Device" is a name already used in xorg.conf, under Section "Device")

After adding this single line, nvidia-settings can save to xorg.conf just fine.