NVidia xorg.conf issue

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Hello everybody.
I just installed Ubuntu budgie.
system information below:

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ inxi -Fraxxx
System:
  Host: apanta-desktop Kernel: 5.19.0-31-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    compiler: N/A parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.0-31-generic
    root=UUID=594b1e7c-6995-4f39-b285-09bdbb77954d ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Budgie v: 10.6.4 info: budgie-panel, plank wm: budgie-wm
    dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: K10N78FullHD-hSLI..
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: P2.30
    date: 04/30/2010
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K8 level: v1
    built: 2005-08 process: AMD 65nm family: 0xF (15) model-id: 0x6B (107)
    stepping: 2 microcode: N/A
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-2x64 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 2x512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2700 scaling: driver: powernow-k8
    governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000 bogomips: 10800
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] driver: nvidia v: 390.157
    alternate: nvidiafb,nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: series: 390.xx+
    status: legacy-active (EOL~late 2022) arch: Fermi code: GF1xx
    process: 40/28nm built: 2010-16 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0dc4 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C310 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 046d:081b class-ID: 0102 serial: 23CC4900
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: budgie-wm driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x1024 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 339x271mm (13.35x10.67")
    s-diag: 434mm (17.09")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 pos: primary res: 1280x1024 hz: 60 dpi: 203
    size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.54") diag: 184mm (7.23") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: VGA-0 pos: primary res: 1280x1024 dpi: 86
    size: 380x300mm (14.96x11.81") diag: 484mm (19.06") modes: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio
    vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-1:2 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:07.0 chip-ID: 046d:081b class-ID: 0102 chip-ID: 10de:0774
    class-ID: 0403 serial: 23CC4900
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 02:00.1
    chip-ID: 10de:0be9 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Logitech Webcam C310 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Device-4: TerraTec GmbH Aureon Dual USB type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 7-1:2 chip-ID: 0ccd:0077
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-31-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP77 Ethernet vendor: ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI R3.0
    driver: forcedeth v: kernel port: a880 bus-ID: 00:0a.0 chip-ID: 10de:0760
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s10 state: down mac: 00:19:66:95:bb:3a
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: TP-LINK TG-3468 driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e800 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 50:3e:aa:0d:94:6e
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.32 TiB used: 583.71 GiB (13.2%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: S2RBNXAH108619N rev: 2B6Q scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164
    size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: Z4Z1QG3Y rev: CC25 scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: 9VP9W7X3 rev: CC38 scheme: MBR
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Crucial model: CT250MX500SSD1
    size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: 2143E5DBAF7B rev: 043 scheme: MBR
  ID-5: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: 2205E6065CFA rev: 060 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 50.3 GiB size: 49.21 GiB (97.83%) used: 10.8 GiB (22.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sde2 maj-min: 8:66
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 48 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Repos:
  Packages: 1959 pm: dpkg pkgs: 1947 libs: 1011
    tools: apt,apt-get,gnome-software pm: snap pkgs: 12
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic main restricted
    2: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic-updates main restricted
    3: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic universe
    4: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic-updates universe
    5: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic multiverse
    6: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic-updates multiverse
    7: deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ kinetic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    8: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security main restricted
    9: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security universe
    10: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 203 Uptime: 1h 4m wakeups: 2520 Memory: 7.76 GiB used: 1.67 GiB
  (21.6%) Init: systemd v: 251 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.2.2 running-in: tilix
  inxi: 3.3.21
apanta@apanta-desktop:~$

My video card is a workforce GTS450. I set the two connected displays to “Duplicate” and it works fine. Then I tried to save the configured settings but it won’t let me save them in the /etcX11/xorg.conf file as such file doesn’t exist.
Using nemo I created the empty xorg.conf document and then tried to save again, but without success.
The driver is correct (390.157).
the answer I get is:
[url=https://postimages.org/][/url]
Can you suggest me how to work to solve the problem? Thank you

2

How are you launching nvidia settings?

Use pkexec with the app name since the file is being written to a system area that pkexec will grant

3

Before launch nvidia via the program icon.
Now via terminale:

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ pkexec '/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop'

But when I press enter the result is:

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ pkexec '/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop' 
Error executing /usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop: Permission denied

I also tried:

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ pkexec /usr/bin/nvidia-settings

ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
       --help` for usage information.

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
       --help

(nvidia-settings:4470): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 19:47:52.626: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 19:47:53.057: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 19:47:53.057: PRIME: is it supported? no

VALIDATION ERROR:  Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
At least one Device section is required.


WARNING:  Unable to parse X.Org version string.

Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-server' found
Error executing /usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-polkit: Permission denied

ERROR: Unable to open X config file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' for writing.

--help: comando non trovato
apanta@apanta-desktop:~$
4

I spotted this

Do you have a file /usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-polkit ?

If so the suggested fix is

sudo chmod u+x /usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-polkit
5

The file exists, but when I give the command, this is the response

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ sudo chmod u+x /usr/share/screen-resolution-extra/nvidia-polkit
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is world writable
sudo: /etc/sudoers è scrivibile da tutti
sudo: nessuna sorgente valida di sudoers trovata, uscita
sudo: errore nell'inizializzare il plugin di audit sudoers_audit
apanta@apanta-desktop:~$
6

You have bigger issues than the nvidia settings.

You seem to have messed up your sudo rights.

A more generic ubuntu forum can help here. It isnt a budgie specific issue

askubuntu.com and ubuntuforums.org

7

After several tries, suddenly the command worked and then I was able to save the settings. Thanks for your help
How can I mark the post as solved?

8

Even though I solved the problem, I preferred to switch to a fresh install of Ubuntu budgie 22.04 lts.
Installed without problems, with nvidia drivers and everything works perfectly.

apanta@apanta-desktop:~$ inxi -FZA
System:
  Host: apanta-desktop Kernel: 5.19.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: Budgie 10.6.1 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: K10N78FullHD-hSLI..
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: P2.30
    date: 04/30/2010
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
    L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 1000/2700 cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] driver: nvidia v: 390.157
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C310 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia resolution: 1: 1280x1024~60Hz 2: 1280x1024
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio
    driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-3: Logitech Webcam C310 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Device-4: TerraTec GmbH Aureon Dual USB type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-32-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP77 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
  IF: enp0s10 state: down mac: 00:19:66:95:bb:3a
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 50:3e:aa:0d:94:6e
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.32 TiB used: 750.83 GiB (17.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Crucial model: CT250MX500SSD1 size: 232.89 GiB
  ID-5: /dev/sde vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 49.21 GiB used: 10 GiB (20.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sde2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 28.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Info:
  Processes: 226 Uptime: 1m Memory: 7.76 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (15.6%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.13
apanta@apanta-desktop:~$
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I would advise that you choose an alternative driver. Nvidea ended support for 390 at the end of last year.

FYI

10

true true. The OP though I think is limited - its either use the 390 legacy driver - or just use the out of the box opensource nouveau driver. The graphics model is too old for the newer nvidia drivers.

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11

Nouveau is a good alternative now. Overheating issues seem to have been fixed.

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Thanks again for your patience