I have installed the current Nvidia drivers, and get the Nvidia logo at startup but for some reason when I click on the Nvidia configuration icon the graphics change, they get darker and it seems like all the settings change just by entering the Nvidia settings.

When I kill X, the settings revert back to they were before I the Nvidia settings options.

What could be causing this?

The picture actually looks better before I go into the Nvidia settings.

Thanks.

Had the same problem with my video driver for nvidia geforce 6800gs. i removed nvidia and reinstalled the FreeBDS current version using both the nvidia driver and xconfig uility and that fixed it.

Nvidia-settings saves the values you set while using it to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc.

When you run nvidia-settings, one of the first things it does is read in those settings and apply them. This is why your screen changes when you launch nvidia-settings--it's loading the settings you set the last time you ran it.

Normally, there's not a bloody thing that goes looking for these settings when you start up X, which is why what you do with nvidia-settings has been failing to remain that way between runs of X.

In order for things to work correctly, you need to prepend "nvidia-settings -l" to your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsessionrc or whatever you're using as an rc script for when you start X.

The README files pertaining to the use of nvidia-settings mentions all this.

Ok I will check that out, Thanks guys.