Bug#629907: nvidia-settings: Failed to find display device 0x00100000 on screen 0 (on GPU-0)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-06-09 15:29, Chris AtLee wrote:
> Package: nvidia-settings
> Version: 270.41.06-1

There is a new upstream beta available. I'll let you know once packages
have entered unstable or experimental.

> nvidia-settings often won't let me manage my attached displays because
> of this error:
> 
> ERROR: Failed to find display device 0x00100000 on screen 0 (on GPU-0)
>        while parsing metamode:
>        'DFP-4: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1200 +1600+0'
> 
> The only way I've figured out to work around this is to restart X.

Google found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1047029
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=155651
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/526955

There seem to be some workarounds to this problem - does anything work
for you?

Andreas