How to problem-solve nvidia-settings

[simsen]

Hello all!

I have spent countless hours reading forums, guides and how-tos everywhere, and still I cannot find a solution to my main problem: The screen is positioned too far to the right when at 1280x1024 resolution.

After many, many hours fiddling with xorg.conf and sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, I have a smidgeon of hope that nvidia-settings might do the trick, but I get errors when typing "nvidia-settings" in terminal. Here are the errors:

ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. 
ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. 
ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on ':0.0'. X 

Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154 
Major opcode: 143 
Minor opcode: 3 
Resource id: 0x0 
Failed to open device X 

Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154 
Major opcode: 143 
Minor opcode: 3 
Resource id: 0x0 
Failed to open device

My question is: where do I begin problem-solving this?

Any help is much appreciated.

- Simsen

[simsen]

Re: How to problem-solve nvidia-settings

Fixed it!

I thoroughly checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf-file for any anomalies, and sure enough: there were lots of sections and subsections devoted to Wacom-tablets. I don't have a Wacom-tablet, so I removed the sections from xorg.conf.

And Vóila! Problem solved!