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I have recently installed the NVIDIA drivers on my Xubuntu 15.10 machine but I had to remove them due to improper multi-monitor setup. Everything went fine, except for the fact that gpu-manager seems to overwrite my xorg.conf file with a wrong version containing NVIDIA stuff.

I know that there is a reported bug related to this, and I tried applying the hotfix suggested there but to no avail; namely, I changed /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf to:

#start on (starting lightdm
#      or starting gdm
#      or starting kdm
#      or starting xdm
#      or starting lxdm)
task
exec gpu-manager --log /var/log/gpu-manager.log

My xorg.config file keeps being overwritten with the NVIDIA stuff.

Any other suggestions? I am also a bit concerned that some people suggested that the hotfix above might freeze the syystem (whatever that means).

adrianp
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OK, as per this blogpost, adding nogpumanager to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub solves the issue. Thus, the line in /etc/default/grub should look like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nogpumanager"

After you edit the file, don't forget to run:

sudo update-grub
adrianp
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Look here for all possible solution https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/05/solving-the-ubuntu-14-04-nvidia-346-nvidia-prime-black-screen-issue/#comments

one good solution is 

 By doing sudo chattr +i /etc/X11/xorg.conf you can prevent any process from changing the file.

But then I am not sure aticonfig --initial will work

Oren
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For those who get 640x480 screen or whatever problem and you had touchpad settings in the old overwritten xorg.conf file (those settings are already backed up in a file names similar to xorg.conf.12345678) The solution is: after commenting those lines out in /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf like this:

#start on (starting lightdm
#      or starting gdm
#      or starting kdm
#      or starting xdm
#      or starting lxdm)
task
exec gpu-manager --log /var/log/gpu-manager.log

All you have to do is to remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf file once then run sudo service lightdm restart and after that you see there is a new xorg.conf generated. You can copy old settings from xorg.conf.12345678 to the end of the new xorg.conf file. And restart lightdm service again.

newpeople
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