Aaron Digulla composed on 2015-02-07 10:31 (UTC+0100):
After installing VirtualBox 4.3.20 from Tumbleweed yesterday, X didn't want to use my Nvidia drivers anymore.
After looking into the Xorg.0.log, I noticed that X loaded vboxvideo and eventually ended up with using the VESA driver.
I made nvidia-xconfig create a new xorg.conf but that was ignored.
I also saw that X loads /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install
So I emptied that file, copied the Device section of the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and restarted the display-manager service.
After all these changes, I finally got my desktop back in shape. Then I started hunting for the reason of the issue. My first guess was that installing VirtualBox caused it but snapper told me the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install was from last year.
So I'm a bit puzzled what caused the problem. I also couldn't file a package which installs /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install. Does anyone have a known good copy?
13.1, 13.2 & TW installs in the past week all have the same 874 bytes file but with timestamps from when installation was performed. Here's one without any tripled newlines: Section "Device" Identifier "vboxvideo" Driver "vboxvideo" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "vboxvideo" Device "vboxvideo" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "vmware" Driver "vmware" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "vmware" Device "vmware" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "modesetting" Driver "modesetting" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "modesetting" Device "modesetting" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "fbdev" Driver "fbdev" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "fbdev" Device "fbdev" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "vesa" Driver "vesa" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "vesa" Device "vesa" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout" Screen "vboxvideo" Screen "vmware" Screen "modesetting" Screen "fbdev" Screen "vesa" EndSection If you want a skeleton to build from, several in the following might serve better: http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/Linux/ http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/ Some find it easier to use xorg.conf.d/ instead of xorg.conf. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org