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<div>I'm having trouble with nvidia-auto-select apparently overriding my settings in xorg.conf.<br><br></div>I
used nvidia-settings to set my resolution to 1920x1080 and saved the
file successfully to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I confirmed that the desired
resolution is in that file, but upon reboot it isn't getting used. I
reviewed<br><div><div>/var/log/Xorg.0.log which claims it is using my xorg.conf:<br> [13.773] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"<br>and even claims to be using my resolution specified in that config file<br> [14.000] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080 +0+0 {viewportout=1850x1040+35+19}"<br> ...<br> [14.602] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:<br> [14.602] (II) NVIDIA(0): "1920x1080+0+0{viewportout=<wbr>1850x1040+35+19}"<br> [14.602] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1850 x 1040<br> ...<br> [14.624] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1920x1080+0+0{viewportout=<wbr>1850x1040+35+19}"<br>Yet, further down in the log I see<br>
[16.472] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select
@3770x2120 +0+0 {ViewPortIn=3770x2120, ViewPortOut=3770x2120+35+19}"<br>which I assume is overriding my xorg.conf setting.</div><div><br></div><div>I checked all the following locations and only found /etc/X11/xorg.conf which is the one I created via nvidia-settings:<br></div> /etc/X11/<cmdline> <br> /usr/etc/X11/<cmdline> <br> /etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG<br> /usr/etc/X11/$XORGCONFIG<br> /etc/X11/xorg.conf <wbr> # found<br> /etc/xorg.conf <br> /usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf.<<wbr>hostname> <br> /usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf<br> /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.<<wbr>hostname><br> /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf <br><div></div><div><br></div><div>How do I determine where the override is coming from?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.3, nVidia 384.111, kernel 4.4.
Xorg.0.log is attached.</div></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jerry<br></div></div>
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