Ubuntu makes the installation of Nvidia drivers easy as in no other
major distribution. Nobody forced the Ubuntu developers to so -- but
they did, and personally I consider this a wise decision and one reason
for the success of Ubuntu. I guess that most Ubuntu users with Nvidia
graphic card do install the Nvidia driver.
But saying A means you also have to say B: You can't first invite the
user to install the Nvidia driver and then present him/her with an
obviously broken configuration tool. That's absurd! Fix it (papercut or
not)!
>From my experience, it is not sufficient to start nvidia-settings with
gksudo. You first must prepare xorg.conf to contain (at least) these
lines:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
This is no major effort and should qualify as a papercut.
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nvidia-settings doesn't have permissions to write xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200868
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