On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 23:02 +1000, Heracles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks Jeff, > I did that and screwed everything. I now get no X at all. I think it may > be to do with the nvidia GeForce 6200. The site says that it is > supported in nvidia-glx-new but after installing I have screwed > everything. I guess I will try a vesa driver and make a backup of her > home directory and then reinstall. > > Heracles >
Not sure if this is related, but I had success with Envy for installing nVidia drivers - https://launchpad.net/envy I got myself into a serious tangle before I discovered this. > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Heracles"> > > > >> If you change monitors on a Ubuntu 7.04 machine do you have to reinstall > >> to get the system to use it or is there a simpler way? > > > > This is long-term suckage. The easiest way to do it now is plug in your new > > monitor and (probably at a console) run: > > > > dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xorg > > > > When xorg.conf is banished forever (probably within a couple of upstream > > cycles, such that you only need it if you have a really odd config), it is > > unlikely that this will continue to be a problem. :-) > > > > - Jeff > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGxErfybPcBAs9CE8RAlZKAJ9d6ouW+o/4D7PXvL26cCIQwGwmvQCgtCqz > LNr6cyEjGcQRS79wzpYkunc= > =2+Kj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
