hi all and nv devs, i’m on kubuntu 14.10 64b with 346.47 drivers, and i’ve noticed that there’s no xorg.conf any more (at least, it isn’t created by default, and there’s an nvidia-persistenced service going on in the background). i wanted to enable the coolbits options as always, but is there a way…

i have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d… but i found it under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, thou there is no xorg.conf inside. just a bunch of different .confs for various hardware. no nvidia or graphics anywhere…

So what if there’s no xorg.conf. Create it. All you need is a Device section.

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf # Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA" BoardName "NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660] (rev a1)" Option "Co…

guess what, i already tried it. every xorg.conf i put into just crashes x at startup. i tried different versions made both from scratch and from nvidia-settings. minimalistic (only the device section) and full fledged. as a longtime linux user i’ve being dealing with xorg.conf since when you had to…

It reads xorg.conf plus everything in xorg.conf.d automatically. If you’re having trouble getting the X server to start, please generate an nvidia-bug-report.log.gz immediately after a failed attempt and post it here.

ok, i just created a 52-nvidia.conf in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with this content: Section “Device” Identifier “Device0” Driver “nvidia” VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation” BoardName “GeForce GTX 660 Ti” Option “Coolbits” “28” Option “TripleBuffer” “True” …

Good that you got it working. But for the record, in order to be able to get help, it isn’t enough to just say “I tried several configs and it crashed”, it’s to show us the configs you tried and the errors that resulted from it. We didn’t even know you tried any configs from what little info you pos…

look. i really understand this, but keep in mind that my question was about NOT using xorg.conf. i like the idea of the nvidia service handling the video configuration, and even the smaller confs in xorg.conf.d are easier to deal with for me. my question was: “how can i set the nvidia options with…

Option "Coolbits" "28" But why? Where from did you take this number?

(Solved) coolbits without xorg.conf?

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tuke81 March 22, 2015, 3:19pm 2

Check folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, there should be xorg config files.

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