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nvidia-settings package

  1. Bug #477309
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 477309

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hugo_laffez (lars-lydersen) wrote : Re: [Bug 477309] Re: When trying to save new X configuration, I get an error message: Failed to parse existing x config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

It is not correct, of course I know that I have to run as root,
otherwise the program cannot write xorg.conf. I did however find a
solution. Its not nvidia-settings, but rather the xorg.conf shipped with
karmic. I had to delete and regenerate xorg.conf. Afterwards it worked fine.

On 2010-02-21 11:05, Delan Azabani wrote:
> It's because you aren't running nvidia-settings as root; I get the
> problem only when running as myself, when root the problem doesn't
> appear. Run gksudo nvidia-settings
>
>