[Clug-tech] X11 problem

[Mitch Brown]

Hey gang,

I installed a fresh copy of Xubuntu onto my machine with an Nvidia card in
it. The screen resolution is huge and completely wrong for the size of
monitor. So naturally, I clicked to install the restricted drivers.
Installed properly, rebooted - thought all would work flawlessly. Wrong.

It somehow borked my entire xorg.conf, making graphical desktop completely
imoperable. So I copied the borked version to a backup, and then removed the
xorg.conf altogether. Upon restarting gdm, it figured out there was no xorg
to be found, so it somehow spawned me back to the way I had it at the start
- the wrong resolution. I removed the driver using the restricted driver
tool, and for now I'm at 800x600.


Question

1) I have no xorg.conf. At all. I need to make a change to it for something
else irrelevant to this conversation. But I have none.

2) How do I get my proper display drivers up and running, so I'm not stuck
with this 800x600 stuff?


If someone can point me in the right direction, that'd be great. Tx.
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