[Klug-general] xorg woes

[Paul Lenton]

On 16/12/14 19:37, jwmartnet . wrote:
> Is there an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory?

There's not. I did try to make one but that didn't help anything, 
although it did remain persistent across reboots.

> Perhaps try putting your configuration files in there? Although that
> is now IIUC the preferred method for configuration, deletion of the
> config seems a little draconian... Is an Nvidia settings program
> running with SU privileges at boot and overwriting your config?
I'm not sure on this one to be honest. How would I go about checking if 
that were the case?

> I don't have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, it isn't needed anymore (may
> not be true for Debian) but three files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
> 00-keyboard.conf to set keymap, 00-serverflags.conf, and
> 20-nvidia.conf.
>
> James
Which distro are you using? I just tried to download a newer version of 
the driver in the hopes that that would fix things, but all it actually 
did is eat whatever bit of the kernel that controls usb devices!

> On 16 December 2014 at 19:24, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having some problems with xorg (specifically the xorg.conf file) on
>> xubuntu 14.04. I'm using the NVIDIA supplied drivers because I play League
>> of Legends (please don't judge me =p ) and the stock driver doesn't cut it.
>> Whenever I reboot my machine, the xorg.conf file disappears and I have to
>> tty1, kill lightdm, manually copy my xorg.conf.backup to xorg.conf and
>> restart the X server - a process which is becoming more than a little
>> tedious.
>>
>> The issue of xorg.conf not being persistent is an older one (changes to my
>> second screen didn't persist across reboots) but now it's actually deleting
>> every time I reboot I've decided to finally do something about it but
>> quickly realised that my ideas ran out past putting a script that does the
>> above in an @reboot cronjob!
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how this issue might be solved? Failing
>> that, does anyone know if this is an issue in Debian? I'm thinking of
>> switching, having some issues with the direction of the *buntu family, and
>> if my xorg woes will be solved I might just make the switch ahead of the
>> Debian 8 release.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>>
>>
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Cheers

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Paul


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