[Leaplist] installed Ubuntu restrictive Nvidia x crashed

[Fred Moore]

Stephen Cullum wrote:
> I up graded my daughter's computer from dapper to hardy today. Every
> thing went well . Logged in and from the apple let installed the
> nvidia restrictive drivers. Rebooted and every thing went well until
> the log in screen . It went white and the mouse froze then jerked. I
> rebooted and from grub dropped down to a root shell. How can I reset
> my x server from using the restrictive drivers and use the original
> configuration which worked? If the old xorg.conf file was backed up
> can I simply copy that back to the xorg.conf file and roll back to the
> original configuration using the original driver? Under dapper I used
> the restrictive driver for it and it worked.
>
> Thanks for any help offered.
>

It may have been backed up (depends on how it was changed) look at
/etc/X11/ and see if you have a xorg.conf with a date stamp added
something like xorg.conf.20071209151604  (from my machine, guess its
been a while since it was changed) if so copy it over xorg.conf. 

If not, boot the livecd after it starts copy the running xorg.conf over
the xorg.conf on the hard drive, which should be mounted, or write it to
a usb drive, then boot to a terminal and copy it over..

hope this gets you out of your fix..  been there.. Fred


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