Per Eric Julien's suggestion (thanks Eric!) I added the ServerLayout section to xorg.conf and it seemed to fix my problem. Running nvidia- settings as root was still necessary.
It seems that having an (empty) ServerLayout section in xorg.conf by default, and requiring nvidia-settings to run as root, would fix the vast majority of the problems. I find it interesting that nvidia is still using xorg.conf for configuration, while ATI has already moved to the new style and has ceased to use it for config settings. -- nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
