xorg.conf permissions

[steve reilly]

> This error has been around for some time and has a couple of related
> bug reports open in Launchpad. Could you try the following?
>
> sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
> sudo nvidia-xconfig
> gksudo nvidia-settings
>
> This will backup the old X configuration file to xorg.conf.old,
> nvidia-xconfig will generate a new file, and gksudo will start the
> nvidia-settings program properly as root (since its a graphical
> application).
>
> Brandon Vincent

ya, thanks ive seen that in my searching as well, but didnt try it.
i actually removed --purged nvidia-settings before this and that didnt
help either.

this is as you suggested above

steve at steve-MS-7508:/etc/X11$ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
steve at steve-MS-7508:/etc/X11$ sudo nvidia-xconfig

WARNING: Unable to locate/open X configuration file.

New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

steve at steve-MS-7508:/etc/X11$ gksudo nvidia-settings
ERROR: Unable to open X config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' for writing.


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