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nvidia-settings package

nvidia-settings not persistent

Asked by Stuart Gillies

I have seen many reports, citing many versions of Ubuntu, of this problem (desktop brightness etc. settings not persistent across re-boots). According to some reports it is necessary to create files with commands in them to ensure this works. Others claim that these actions do not work. It is also stated, if I understand the bug report correctly, that it is fixed in Karmic.

It isn't fixed in my clean installation of Karmic, currently fully up-to-date. Nor have I been able to find a clear statement of a workaround that is certain to work.

I don't know if this is a problem for nvidia (to me it seems that they aren't reading or writing the correct file) or Ubuntu (if it is overwriting something).

Can I ask if anyone reading this has personal experience of this problem and knows a simple fix that works with Karmic? I would be grateful!

Experienced on a Zotac-Ion mobo with nvidia graphics built in.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nv

Thanks

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Best Doug McMahon (mc3man) said : 		#2

should be fairly simple
open nvidia-settings as a normal user (not root
make any color correction, gamma changes you wish
In the left side box click on the last option - 'nvidia-settings Configuration' and then click on "Save Current Configuration"
In the pop up it should show saving as .nvidia-settings-rc to your home folder - that's want you want.

Then - System -> Admin.. -> Preferences -> Startup Applications -> Add
Create a new one with any name and use this as the command (copy & paste or note that's an l as in load, not 1 as in one

nvidia-settings -l

click save and you should be good

( if not then post back and you can set up a script, but this should suffice

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Stuart Gillies (gillies) said : 		#3

Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the efforts that you and others like you have put into Linux and Ubuntu and helping others and it is quite remarkable the progress that is being made. As a now-retired but still technically-savvy IT professional my interest in Linux is as a user - I prefer to expend my technical energies on amateur radio instead. And for users these relatively simple things are a complete mystery. I use the wife-test - something is not right if my wife (who is a Doctor but uses Ubuntu for office functions every day) would not tolerate it for a moment! If Ubuntu is to beat the competition then it has to eventually pass this test!

Problems like this, though simple, just add to the learning curve that many don't want to climb.

As for my problem Doug's solution works so thanks for that. I was confused by all the posts that talk about xorg.conf etc and missed the obvious myself.

And actionparsnip, here is the info from the command, if it helps diagnose why this problem remains in Karmic!

sudo lshw -C display; dpkg -l | grep nv
 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: ION VGA
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: b1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:20 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff(prefetchable) memory:f8000000-f9ffffff(prefetchable) ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fafe0000-faffffff(prefetchable)

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Stuart Gillies (gillies) said : 		#4

Thanks Doug McMahon, that solved my question.