Since the last apt-get dist-upgrade this morning, I've started seeing nvidia-settings crashes when I try setting something with the error below:

$ The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error.

This probably reflects a bug in the program.

The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.

  (Details: serial 666 error_code 2 request_code 139 minor_code 25)

  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;

   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.

   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line

   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful

   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Having spent a few hours already I've tried several things below and no luck:

• Rename ~/.nvidia-settings-rc --> New file was made at some point I'm not sure.


• Rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf --> New file hasn't been generated.


• Install bumblebee --> Had same situation with this ticket and gave up. Uninstalled.


• Tried installing and/or removing nvidia's libraries (versions tried: 304, 319, 331 afai remember)

Since it looks like the latest nvidia driver 331.20 was just released early this morning, I suspect the newly installed library contains a wrongdoer. But does anyone have an idea to fix this?

System logs:

$ cat /etc/issue

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 

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$ uname -a

Linux 130s-serval 3.2.0-58-generic #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:37:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



$ for keyword in baseboard-manufacturer baseboard-product-name baseboard-version system-manufacturer system-product-name system-version bios-vendor bios-version bios-release-date; done

>     printf "%-22s: " "$keyword";

>     sudo dmidecode -s "$keyword";

> done

System76, Inc.                            

baseboard-product-name: Serval Professional

baseboard-version     : serp7                    

system-manufacturer   : System76, Inc.                          

system-product-name   : Serval Professional

system-version        : serp7                    

bios-vendor           : American Megatrends Inc.

bios-version          : 4.6.4

bios-release-date     : 06/01/2011



$ dpkg -p nvidia-settings |grep Version

Version: 331.20-0ubuntu0.0.1

Thanks!