[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1310489] Re: xorg.conf overwritten by booting system

2014-08-27 Thread dododge
BTW I'm going to second the "nogpumanager" approach, because I just rebooted and even with a completely commented-out gpu-manager.conf it still ran and decided the number of cards had changed and removed my xorg.conf leaving my system unusable. Putting "nogpumanager" into the kernel command line v

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1310489] Re: xorg.conf overwritten by booting system

2014-08-24 Thread dododge
Just a comment that I never saw gpu-manager *modify* xorg.conf -- it just renamed it to xorg.conf-DATE leaving me with no xorg.conf at all (which in my case was enough to cause major problems). Commenting out all of the lines in gpu-manager.conf seems to have stopped it from running, which solved

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1310489] Re: xorg.conf overwritten by booting system

2014-08-23 Thread dododge
I'm another person being harassed by gpu-manager. Every couple reboots it decides the system configuration has changed and removes xorg.conf. That causes the machine to end up in an unusable state, because that xorg.conf was crucial to working around an issue with the NVIDIA driver (which I'm stuc