Easiest way is to create a new user and startx on that user so you drop all previous configs. then just copy you home folder setting files to your old user again..
// A Erik Christiansen skrev den 2015-03-25 08:36: > On 24.03.15 22:51, Mark Johnsen wrote: >> I got a hum dinger... > You sure have found a way in deep. Back on older distros, I'd have a go > at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but wheezy doesn't seem to have anything in /etc, > just what look like examples in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, so it's all > changed yet again. > > Ah, /var/log/Xorg.0.log says: > > [ 25.537] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" > [ 25.582] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. > [ 25.582] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults. > [ 25.582] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0) > [ 25.582] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>" > [ 25.583] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen > Section". > Using a default monitor configuration. > > So, if there's a file in the directory with a "Screen" section, you > could try deleting that section. OR Better Still, if you can get a > command line, e.g. remotely via ssh, you could try: > > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > I'm newly on Debian 7.8.0, and still installing all the dozens of bits > and pieces missing after a new install, so a bit reluctant to futz with > the display here to see if it still does what it used to. It should - > there's a pile of xserver-xorg packages for it to play havoc with. > > Last time I did that, it backed up what was there, in case I might want > it again. That doesn't seem to be your case. :-) > > ... > > OR it should alternatively be possible to run, as root: > > # sudo Xorg -configdir directory > > where "directory" is a clean set of config files borrowed from an > uncorrupted wheezy box. That would be safer than immediately overwriting > what you have ... in case that just digs a deeper hole. > > OR it could be interesting to first see if just: > > # Xorg -configure > > will regenerate a clean config. (Depends on what it detects, AIUI.) > >> I should be laughing at this, not really so much. > No, it takes time to be able to laugh about a hole in one's foot. > >> Thinking out-loud, I don't have anything on that system, so a re-install is >> probably easiest? Especially for a linux-handicapper like me. > Well, even if there were a lot on the system, it is doubtless all backed > up, so nothing can be lost, can it? ;-) > > A re-install might be the easiest way out if you can't ssh in. > > Erik > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
