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

[Chris AtLee]

Package: nvidia-settings
Version: 270.41.06-1
Severity: normal


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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nvidia-settings depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.3-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.3-6   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.3.0-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.1.1-1  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup [nvi 20110515+1 Cleanup after driver installation 

nvidia-settings recommends no packages.

nvidia-settings suggests no packages.

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