On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:07:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> You can also use nvidia-settings to change the power saving mode at >> run-time, but it does not save it and you must do it every time you >> log into X, which is annoying. > > Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart? > > That's the official way of loading the settings at login.
If I remember, this option could not be set by commandline, only by the nvidia-settings GUI. Maybe it has been added since then.