[Klug-general] xorg woes

[jwmartnet .]

On 16 December 2014 at 21:14, Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 I just tried to download a newer version of the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!
>


Is there anything in log files, dmesg, journctl -b (if using
systemd?), /var/log/Xorg.0.log? What card do you have? Is the card
still supported by the driver you're using? My card recently dropped
out into one of legacy driver packages.

I'm using Arch Linux, with a Nvidia GT9600 card, also running Steam.
Nvidia version 340.65. There's an LTS version too.

Arch is all manual configuration to get everything you want working
but once it's done it's done, and a rolling release system means no
major version upgrades means no re-install. Just be prepared to deal
with problems on the way. Lot's of help in the Wiki, for example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia



>
>> 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
>
> --
> Paul
>
>
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