Very weird graphics problem

**Beezleray** · April 13th, 2009

Hi,
I just updated my Nvidia drives and restarted my system and now there is this weird glitch. About a half an inch of the left hand of my screen is located on the right side. For instance, right now to scroll down I have to take my cursor off of the screen to the left and it'll apear on the right where the scroll bar is.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

**Beezleray** · April 13th, 2009

Any help at all would be greatly appreacated.

**Universal344** · April 13th, 2009

With proprietary drivers there is only so much you can do. I would suggest fiddling with the settings in the nVidia configuration program and seeing if anything works.

**Beezleray** · April 14th, 2009

I messed with the nVidia config file and I get it to work but I have to mess with it every time I start up my computer, its annoying but I guess since its proprietary I'll have to deal.

**DenysT** · April 14th, 2009

Originally Posted by Beezleray

I messed with the nVidia config file and I get it to work but I have to mess with it every time I start up my computer, its annoying but I guess since its proprietary I'll have to deal.

Did you just run nvidia-settings off the menu? If so you fell into the same trap I did. Instead open a terminal window and use gksudo nvidia-settings to change your settings. Then save settings and all should be fine the next boot up.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could just right click on a system menu and get a "Run with gksudo" similar to "Run as..." in Windows? Just a thought.

**Beezleray** · April 14th, 2009

At first I did it off the menu then I caught on and used gksudo, it still changes every reboot. I wonder if there is a script I can get to start on start-up and change it for me every time.