Friday, December 30, 2011

Saving xorg.conf in nvidia-setttings

I ran into some trouble saving my nvidia-settings. For some reason at the time, I was not able to open nvidia-settings as root. If you're having the same issue, here's the workaround.

(you may have to run nvidia-xconfig (as root), I ran it before the fix and the fix worked so you might want to do it)

The fix: After clicking "Save to X Configuration File" click "Show Preview" instead of save. CTRL+A and COPY.

In KDE open Kate, in Gnome open Gedit. Then PASTE code and save in your home folder. (I saved it in my Documents folder)

Open a terminal. Type (as root or using sudo): mv /where/you/saved/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This will overwrite the old xorg.conf file with the new one you just created.

Restart.

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