Any reconfiguration of xorg.conf by nvidia-xconfig prevents desktop load

[hgkrug1]

I have seen many people battling with the same issue. The solution discussed above seems the most promising form all the proposed solutions I have seen and tried (unsuccessful). However, I apologise to ask, would you be so kind to provide the solution a bit more with details? I don't have the technical knowledge you guys seem to have!

[hgkrug1]

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 19.04 with a NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] card. According to the Nvidia website, the nvidia-driver-430 should work. I attempted solution above by

copy xorg.conf to "/etc/X11/Xsession.d/" and rename it to "20-nvidia.conf" after I have installed the driver.

Same problem after reboot.

[hgkrug1]

The above solution did not work for me. I found a solution for this Nvidia driver issue (on ubuntu 18 and 19). See instructions at the top at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....nvidia+drivers, it worked for me!

[hgkrug1]

I found a solution for this Nvidia driver issue (on ubuntu 18 and 19). See instructions at the top at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....nvidia+drivers, it worked for me!

Unfortunately, I could not reproduce the installation on a freshly installed system.

However, I found a suitable fix at entry #19 of https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1798790

Try this as a workaround: edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
and uncomment the line:
#WaylandEnable=false

[unterdenlinden2]

I was able to make my Xorg.conf work by running:

nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus
nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=4

Then open nvidia-settings and your Xorg.conf and remap the deviceX and corresponding BusIDs in the Xorg.conf file to what is shown under each GPU X in nvidia-settings. For some reason nvidia-xconfig switches these around, as has been mentioned. Then my desktop would load and fan control was allowed across all GPUs.