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

[tmp10 at shaw.ca]

Hi,

Unfortunately I installed the backports nvidia-settings and still get 
the same error: "Unable to load X Server Display Configuration page: 
Failed to query NoScanout for screen 0."

For the record this is what I did to install the backports version:

I added the backports to the sources.list: deb 
http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Purged the existing nvidia-settings package:

:~$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   nvidia-settings*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2,093 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 217157 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nvidia-settings ...
Purging configuration files for nvidia-settings ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

And reinstalled nvidia-settings from backports:

:~$ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install nvidia-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   nvidia-settings
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
Need to get 825 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,093 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-settings (195.36.24-1) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...

Thanks,
Conan

On 13/01/12 08:32 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> an updated version of nvidia-settings that should be compatible with the
> legacy drivers is available in squeeze-backports.
> Please try this and report back.
>
> Visit http://backports.debian.org for instructions how to enable and use
> backports.
>
>
> Andreas
>
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