Screen resolution T61p, Nvidia

[Ryan Pugatch]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:27:04 +0000
Kevin Whitefoot <kwhitefoot at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.  That worked.  At least it did after I launched it as
> 
>   sudo nvidia-settings
> 
> I think the way it is set up on the menu must be a bug because unless 
> you run it as root it cannot save the settings to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 

I have noticed that 'bug', too.  I didn't realize it affected Ubuntu (I
run Xubuntu-- I assumed it was just related to how it was launched
within xfce4-panel).

> So now I have another question:
> 
> Why is this a global setting?  Why is it not per user?  Another user 
> with poorer eyesight might well want a different setting.
> 

This is because the X server is being launched before you actually log
in as your user.  When it launches, it uses the standard xorg.conf.
There may be a way around this, but this isn't something I've ever had
to do.


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