** Description changed: On the 7th or the 8th, the xorg edgers repo updated. The driver i was using is nvidia-340. I don't exactly know how this works but it deleted my xorg.conf file and did so on every relog and reboot. I had had this problem a few months back but I was able to work around it by setting the xorg.conf file to read-only, using the command sudo 'chattr +i xorg.conf'. I tried the same thing this time around but the xorg log keeps saying that the driver doesnt exist. I'll attach the log if i find it. More to the point, in my last successful install, after installing the driver, i just had to run nvidia-xconfig the for the driver to work. This time around, none of the programs that are usually installed have been installed, no nvidia-persistenced, no nvidia-xconfig, no nvidia- smi. The only thing that comes is nvidia-detector. When i force xorg to use the same xorg.conf as before, by giving it - readonly attribute so that it isnt autodeleted, xorg log says + readonly attribute so that it isnt autodeleted, xorg log says '[ + 17.499] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)' I have the same problem with the rest of the rest of the nvidia drivers i've tried including: nvidia-current, nvidia-331, nvidia-343, nvidia-346. - Description: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Release: 17.1 (Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty) 3.13.0-40-generic xserver-xorg-lts-trusty nvidia-340: - Installed: 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 - Candidate: 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 - Version table: - *** 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 0 - 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status + Installed: 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 + Candidate: 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 + Version table: + *** 340.65-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 0 + 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon Date: Wed Dec 10 19:52:40 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-03 (37 days ago) InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" - Release amd64 20140624 ProcEnviron: - TERM=xterm - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + TERM=xterm + PATH=(custom, no user) + XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> + LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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