[Leaplist] installed Ubuntu restrictive Nvidia x crashed

[Stephen Cullum]

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
>   
Thanks Fred.

What I did is went into grub , selected fix x . Then resume boot. That 
fixed my problem. Was easier than editing the xorg.conf file although I 
have done that more than once.


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