I was also experiencing the same issue with saving to xorg.conf via sudo
nvidia-settings command.
nvidia-xconfig yeiled same results.. Peculiar ! I then decided to try v.173
drivers with no success
(flashing screen before and after sudo nvidia-xconfig and sudo
nvidia-settings) I then had to
Well so much for all that. After submitting above comments I was
alerted with the crash warning.. Weird that it took a while, However
settings are saved as they should.Everything works and saves correctly
but a crash warning is issued some time after successfully editing and
saving to xorg.conf.
