[Leaplist] installed Ubuntu restrictive Nvidia x crashed

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

A simple call of:

sed s/\"nvidia\"/\"vesa\"/g /etc/X11/xorg.conf

will output a modified xorg.conf to stdout that will go back to your
working drivers. Look at the output, verify that it looks OK, then commit
it.
On Tue, July 14, 2009 5:32 am, Fred Moore wrote:
> 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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> the trouble of having to do research.
> Fred/WD8KNI
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