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 > > -- When trying to save new X configuration, I get an error message: Failed to parse existing x config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477309 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
