[Klug-general] xorg woes

[Sharon Kimble]

Paul Lenton <lentonp at gmail.com> writes:

> On 17/12/14 11:47, Paul Littlefield wrote:
>> Remind me tonight and I'll have a look at my HTPC to see if there is an
>> xorg.conf file.
>>
>> I use the latest NVIDIA from this page...
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-amd64-display-archive.html
>>
>> ...and go through the switch-out-of-x, lightdm stop, install, lightdm
>> start, reboot INSTALL process... but that is only when I CHANGE drivers.
>
> I downloaded a driver from there before (331.79) which is the most stable
> one I've found so far.
> When I went to 331.113 or whatever the newest one is in APT, it doesn't
> recognise my second screen, and the 340.65 completely borked my PC.
>
> I did try to completely purge all of the drivers from my PC with dpkg -l 
> | grep nvidia and apt-get purge nvidia* and try to reinstall that way, but
> the 331.113-updates package is determined to remove playonlinux and wine
> so I ended up running the install script for the 331.79 again.
>
> I did notice on the verbose output that a group called nvidia-persistenced
> is being created with a sudo command but I can't figure out how to change
> the group to be owned by me without meaning that my user account has
> access to startup scripts.
>
> If Debian 8 wasn't so painfully close to release (hopefully!) I'd drop
> xubuntu and be a Debian boy again. I got Ubuntu because I wanted an easy
> life, not constant xorg problems! Arrggh.

Close to release? Give over, it will be at least a year yet, it only
went into freeze on November 5th.

And my "xorg.conf" was set on setup in December 2013, and has needed
nothing else doing to it since then. But I do keep a backup in my
~/cron/conf folder. So its stable under testing.

Sharon.
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