Comment 93 for bug 286424

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jraborg (jraborg) wrote : Re: [Bug 286424] Re: nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File
  • xorg.conf Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; name="xorg.conf"; charset="UTF-8")

Got it working replacing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (just in case make a copy of
your current xorg.conf) with current attached personal xorg.conf
hopefully this helps

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 22:57 +0000, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> > Why would you have to *save X configuration file* as long as
> > the newer nvidia drivers sets out the resolution automatically?
>
> Because nvidia-settings lets you customize much more than just
> resolution -- e.g. if you have multiple monitors, nvidia-settings lets
> you pick which monitor is on which side (so that dragging your cursor
> off the right side of one will put it on the left side of the other,
> etc).
>
> > Am I the only one that thinks this bug still being present is really
> > embarrassing? Come on, people... It can't be that hard to fix.
>
> Though I agree with your sentiment, let's try to keep comments like this
> (and "me too" comments) to a minimum -- this bug is getting to be
> unreadably long, which makes it all the harder for Ubuntu developers to
> see what's broken and what's been discovered.
>
> The cause of this bug has been essentially known since comment #64.
> There should be no reason to post here unless you have new information,
> or unless you're actively working on fixing the bug.
>