I did it!

[Murderlove]

Hello everyone,

I finally did a dualboot with XP and Linux after trying a few distro's 8) . My favorites so far are OzoS, Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I now have Linux Mint 6.0 Felicia installed. But I have a question regarding my graphic card settings. I do not know where to save the file so that Mint can startup with the settings I have specified. I have taken pictures of it so hopefully someone can help me out.



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[Mrkvonic]

Hello,

First, congratulations!

Second, once you setup the desktop, it should remember and launch every consequent time. To access system files, like xorg.conf, you'll need root permissions or sudo in ubuntu or mint. The best way to merge, copy, backup files is from the command line.

Mrk

[Murderlove]

Hello Mrkvonic,

It does not seem to load in the resolution and refreshrate I had put in the driver settings, which is what I want. I had the same with Ubuntu. It seems to load into the highest resolution my monitor supports, and a different refreshrate, and that is something which I do not want.

[Mrkvonic]

Maybe your graphics driver does not support those rates?
Don't force too much, you can damage your monitor ...
Mrk

[Murderlove]

I do not know why it returns to the automatic selection of both resolution and refreshrate. The r_mode which I choose is 7 1152x864, and my monitor supports a refreshrate up untill 140 in that specific r_mode. I only put it on 100 in the driver settings, which is apparently the maximum in those drivers of Linux.

[Beavenburt]

I've got an nvidia card. What you need to do is open nvidia settings as root. So in Mint do a "sudo nvidia-settings" in terminal. That will open the settings as root. Set your resolution etc then click the save to x config file button to update your xorg.conf
That's it. Always works for me. I suspect it's not saving because you're running nvidia-settings as user rather then root.

[lewmur]

-{ Quote: "I do not know why it returns to the automatic selection of both resolution and refreshrate. The r_mode which I choose is 7 1152x864, and my monitor supports a refreshrate up untill 140 in that specific r_mode. I only put it on 100 in the driver settings, which is apparently the maximum in those drivers of Linux." }-

It has nothing to do with your monitor. This is a stupid bug in Ubuntu, which is the base of Mint, where the nVidia Settings applet is not opened with root privileges. It has been known for a long time but they won't fix it because some feel you shouldn't be allowed to modify xorg.conf from an applet. Just plain dumb in my opinion.

The solution is to open a terminal and type "gksudo nvidia-settings" from the command line. This will allow you to save your settings.

[lewmur]

-{ Quote: "I've got an nvidia card. What you need to do is open nvidia settings as root. So in Mint do a "sudo nvidia-settings" in terminal. That will open the settings as root. Set your resolution etc then click the save to x config file button to update your xorg.conf
That's it. Always works for me. I suspect it's not saving because you're running nvidia-settings as user rather then root." }-
Your answer is correct but I wanted to point out why the bug exists.

[Murderlove]

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for your help! gksudo nvidia-settings did the trick;D