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

[Chris AtLee]

So far I haven't had much luck using nvidia-settings -a
AssociatedDisplays. I just tried nv-control-dpy --probe-dpys, which
caused X to crash :\

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> 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
>