LDM doesn't care for seperate config files (ie nvidia options) (T6246)

[celticmagic]

Scott Walters (#nan0s7), 2018-04-21 02:46:15 UTC

So this has been a bit annoying for a while but I guess I forgot to submit a bug lol...

Basically in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ if I want to have (as I have an NVIDIA card) coolbits activated, I would normally make a separate config file that has the appropriate options changed, and after a reboot it would apply, and would stick after GPU driver updates.

Since the introduction of LDM, this doesn't seem to work no matter what I've tried. Despite what I name the file and include in the file, it doesn't work as expected. I've tried the following names for my separate config file: 00-nvidia.conf, 01-nvidia.conf, 99-nvidia.conf, nvidia.conf, and even changing "nvidia" to something different like "custom".

I am of the belief that my actual configuration settings are correct, as if I add the line that enables coolbits to the actual 00-ldm.conf file, everything works fine, and also makes it have identical contents to my separate config files. No this is not a good enough solution as after one driver update that file gets reset.

An example of the contents of my configuration file:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "NVIDIA Card"
  Option "Coolbits" "12"
  Driver "nvidia"
  VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName "GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]"
EndSection

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@joebonrichie Can you reproduce this?