Liam,
> If you ran it from System | Administration, it should have asked you
> for your password. That's gksudo - the same as sudo but running
> graphically.
Nope, that would have made sense, as I did run it from
System|Administration, I got an error saying it couldn't parse the x -config
file
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Graham Smith wrote:
> Liam,
>
>> and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing.
>>
>> Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings.
>>
>> Personally, I run it from a terminal:
>>
>> $ sudo -s
>> # nvidia-settings
>>
>
>
> Thanks,
Liam,
and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing.
>
> Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings.
>
> Personally, I run it from a terminal:
>
> $ sudo -s
> # nvidia-settings
>
>
Thanks, that sounds like a good idea, but in fact it seems to have saved the
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> Following on from my new monitor thread, I ended up with a Viewsonic
> VG2227WM 22" Monitor. I know this wasn't mentioned in that thread, but for
> various reasons that is what I ended up with. And, as suggested, I also
> replaced my Matrox
:00:09
To: ; UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview
Bodsda
Reboots are not necessary, use ctr+alt+backspace to restart X.
>
Thanks, so can I select the primary display and restart X to see if its
working, without committing to saving the x config.
>
Mmmm, well this bizarre, I have just tried this again, to see if restarting
X helped. However this time when I went into the NVIDIA GUI, the second
monitor was overlapping the main monitor in the monitor set up display.
before it had been offset to the left.
I dragged the monitor over to the left,
Bodsda
Reboots are not necessary, use ctr+alt+backspace to restart X.
>
Thanks, so can I select the primary display and restart X to see if its
working, without committing to saving the x config.
> Saving to the config file is the only way to keep the configuration after a
> reboot though.
>
Y
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Following on from my new monitor thread, I ended up with a Viewsonic VG2227WM
22" Monitor. I know this wasn't mentioned in that thread, but for various
reasons that is what I ended up with. And, as suggested, I also replaced my
Matrox card (new graphics card is an ASUS geforce EN210 Silent)
The V
