[Clug-tech] X11 problem

[Neil Bower]

Get logged in to a command window.

The command "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" should get you pointed in
the right direction as a start.

Cheers!

~Neil

2009/1/22 Mitch Brown <mitch at untitled1.ca>:
> 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.