Difference between remove & purge: - 'remove' uninstall the package, but does not remove the package settings, which can disturb the system and conflict with an other driver choice. - 'purge' remove both package & its settings; that is way recommended.
About /etc/X11/xorg.conf, this is no more used since a couple releases. so your system should not finf such a path anyway. Your real problem is not about 'xorg' as you have reported but 'gdm' and/or 'gnome-session' ****************** May 3 09:20:18 madbox /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2748]: (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to acquire modesetting permission. May 3 09:20:18 madbox /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2748]: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen 0 ****************** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768906 Title: Xorg crash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1768906/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
