in the past I extracted the conf file from the rpm

-pete

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Dale Snell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:00:16 -0800
> "Michael C. Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>> The card has been removed and I am trying to use the
>> motherboard's onboard vga adapter.  How do I undo the damage
>> that installing the catalyst driver wreaks on the relevant open
>> source free packages? I've run the proprietary uninstall
>> command, but I doubt that that fixed all issues.  I'm planning
>> on sending the card out for warranty repair, but in the mean
>> time being stuck at 1024x768 I would at least like to be able
>> to play some of my old games that still work at this low
>> resolution.
>>
>> I'm on a Fedora 14 64 bit system.  I have an Athlon II 635 64
>> bit quad core processor.  The mobo is an MSI 785GM-P45.
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> The first thing I'd try is to rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to
> xorg.conf.orig, or something like that, then restart X.  This will
> let X generate a new config if it needs one, which it may not.  If
> that doesn't work, try the following command, as root:
>
> yum reinstall xorg-\*
>
> That will cause yum to re-install all your existing X11 packages.
> Any files that the proprietary Radeon driver has clobbered will be
> replaced.  (I had to do this a couple of times swapping between
> nVidia's drivers and nouveau.)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Dale
>
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