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Old 05-25-2008, 03:30 PM   #1
Agrouf
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Ubuntu overwrites my xorg.conf at boot.


Hello,
Ubuntu 7.10
I've installed proprietary nvidia drivers, but I've got some problems with it and would like to use the nv one.
I've got a working xorg.conf with the nv driver that works correctly with startx.
However, everytime I start gdm, it insists on replacing my xorg.conf with its one that fails. I don't know if it's related to bulletproofx or what, but I've searched google and I've found many threads with this same problem but no solution.
Does anyone here know how to tell ubuntu not to replace my xorg.conf at boot?
 
Old 05-26-2008, 03:45 AM   #2
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I have not had the "pleasure" of working with bulletproofx. I did find two pages that might be relevant to you here and here. If this actually is an issue with bulletproofx, it is supposed to save a backup copy of your original xorg.conf file somewhere. Presence or absence of such a file may give you a clue as to whether the issue really is bulletproofx. My understanding from these pages is it is supposed to throw up some kind of a dialog before it does anything. But there might be some confifuration change(s) you can make to gdm to try to change behavior. (As allways, make sure to back up original config files before altering.) You can look through /etc/gdm/gdm.conf for a line that starts with FailsafeXServer= and if it has something after the equal sign, try deleting it (not the entire line). (While you should look through gdm.conf to see what is there, note that you should actually make any changes to gdm.conf-custom. Any entries in the latter will override what is in the former.) You also might poke around and see if there are any other values that seem like they might be relevant. I assume you know how to use virtual terminals and get into single user mode (rescue mode) if you get into trouble.

Beyond that, all I can do is wish you good luck!

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