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[chris]

On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 01:15 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:55 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: 
> > On 03/26/2011 09:50 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 16:29 +1300, chris wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I am running an asus p4 with an nvidia graphics card, and 2 gig of ram.
> > >> 
> > >> Chris
> > > The trick with the Nvidia X-Server Settings application is on the second
> > > tab (X Server Display Configuration), to write out the new configuration
> > > to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It's obscure and I missed it myself for some
> > > time. You can adjust and play with the setup to your heart's content,
> > > but no changes are permanent until you manually save them by clicking on
> > > "Save to X Configuration File". I guess that's a good thing, in case you
> > > chose a setting that blows everything up. You wouldn't save it and a
> > > reboot would recover to the previous state. Hope this helps. Ric
> > 
> > 
> > And I could never get it to work until I ran it as root.  Probably took 
> > me a couple of years to finally get it working ;-).
> 
> Now it will ask for the master user password to confirm the write!
> Things are improving since back when! :) Ric
> 
Thanks to all, I will have another play over the next few days, and get
back to you
Cheers Chris