Setting up Nvidia Card

[Knute Johnson]

On 2/16/2010 1:03 PM, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> I have an Nvidia 8500GT I was going to set up.  I planned on backing
> up the xorg.conf file so I could recover from the potential black
> screen.  But it seems that 9.1 doesn't use the xorg.conf file.
>
> How do I set up a recovery plan, should I run into problems with the
> configuration?
>
> Barry
>

Others have replied re your recovery but I thought I would mention an 
issue that I had setting up my NVidia card.  That is getting the NVidia 
software, nvidia-settings, to save the xorg.conf file.  If you run it 
from the menu is isn't running as root and won't save the file.  Open a 
terminal and sudo nvidia-settings and it will work fine.  If you already 
know this just ignore me but I wish you had told a while back :-).

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Knute Johnson

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