Setting up Nvidia Card

Barry Premeaux bpremeaux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 23:13:43 UTC 2010


> Others have replied re your recovery but I thought I would mention an
> issue that I had setting up my NVidia card.  That is getting the NVidia
> software, nvidia-settings, to save the xorg.conf file.  If you run it
> from the menu is isn't running as root and won't save the file.  Open a
> terminal and sudo nvidia-settings and it will work fine.  If you already
> know this just ignore me but I wish you had told a while back :-).
>

Thanks for the input.  I've got the driver from Nvidia down loaded and
have also done the repository updates to add the latest drivers.  I
have EnvyNG and nvidia-settings installed.  Of the three methods I
have read through, I am debating which might be the best.

Barry




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