[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

[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

[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

[Bug 1265402] Re: Unity calls mapdevfs with wrong number of args on btrfs raid1

2014-04-02 Thread dododge
I ran into the same problem trying to use a raid1 btrfs for "/" in the 14.04 Xubuntu installer. Just like above, I tracked it down to grub- installer, patched it almost the exact same way, and then after the installation finished it wouldn't boot. Somewhere else in the installer it uses a grub-pr

[Bug 358889] Re: Ghost Mouse coursor images on multiple monitor setup

2009-05-31 Thread dododge
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 357901 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357901 I've also seen the same issue as m3ta-x. While an application is starting up, mouse movement between screens (or at least the location of the visual pointer) goes haywire. Once the application is ready, it g