Bug#650703: nvidia-settings: Can not use X Server Display Configuration due to error

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-01-25 05:20, tmp10 at shaw.ca wrote:

> And reinstalled nvidia-settings from backports:
> 
> :~$ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install nvidia-settings
...
> Get:1 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib nvidia-settings
> i386 195.36.24-1 [825 kB]
> Fetched 825 kB in 2s (346 kB/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-settings.
> (Reading database ... 217131 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking nvidia-settings (from
> .../nvidia-settings_195.36.24-1_i386.deb) ...

That is not the backports version ... which should be 290.10-1~bpo60+1.
Did you enable the contrib area for backports?

Check the output of 'apt-cache policy' and
'apt-cache policy nvidia-settings'.


Andreas