xorg.conf error

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 23:12:18 Tipton, Timothy wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I seem to have some sort of problem with my xorg.conf. I recently
> reinstalled Ubuntu 7.07 on a pretty new machine with an Nvidia card -
> when I log in my resolution is low - to the tune of 1024x ... The video
> card is well capable of 1600x ... (as it worked that way previously)
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> Anyway, I go into my Nvidia settings and make the display change to a
> better resolution - in this case I'm just going to 1280x ... - and when
> I click "Save to Xorg.conf" I get a couple of errors: "Unable to create
> xorg.conf" and "Unable to create backup of xorg.conf".
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> What am I to do, and how am I to do it?
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> Thank you so much for your help,
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> Tim

Hi Tim

Are you trying to edit it as root? If not then that's likely your prob. Hit 
ALT F2 and type "gksudo gedit" without the quotes of course. Or replace gedit 
with whatever text editor you're using. Then you should be able to edit it, 
etc

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