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: > > =====%<----- snip! ----->%===== > >> 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. > > =====%<----- snip! ----->%===== > > 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 > > -- > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], > 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, > will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to > apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a > question." -- Charles Babbage > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
