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I am trying to understand what gpu-manager actually does. My searching has only found to disable it in grub and comment out gpu-manager.conf due to it overwriting xorg.conf. I am running 14.04 Xubuntu, 3 Nvidia 970's and their binary driver. Thanks!

Miko Smitho
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gpu-manager is software that creates a xorg.conf for you.

It is a bug in gpu-manager: it recreates xorg.org on each boot. Let Ubuntu do its thing and disable gpu-manager as you already mentioned.

Have a look at /var/log/gpu-manager.log for any messages. If you add yourself to the bug below (that claims to be fixed but comments at the bottom disagree...) you need that log.

And this bug report has the work-around you describe (by Nash Kaminski on 2014-04-22):

gpu-manager is responsible for overwriting your X config file. Commenting out the "start on" lines at the top of gpu-manager's upstart script located at /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf will temporarily disable gpu-manager and prevent xorg.conf from being changed.

Rinzwind
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I suppose it can be useful if you're frequently changing the GPU configuration, for instance if you're using a laptop with an external GPU.

Emile
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