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[sciencequeen <stephanie.hendy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried running it under root and I still got the same problem.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Delan Azabani
<delan.azabani@xxxxxxxxx>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
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> Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nvidia-settings
>
> This is a new bug seen in Ubuntu 9.10. In previous versions I was able to
> save x configuration with the help of the sudo command.
>
> But here it looks like the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf has a changed structure
> or layout, at least compared to what Nvidia expects.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Nov  7 11:33:53 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: nvidia-settings 180.25-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
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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
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