Urgent help needed - desktop/ screen Kubuntu Karmic does not function at all!

[Bas Roufs]

*Hello David and everybody!*

*Your feedback, David, apparently contains the key I am looking for. Now, I
am able again to write this message from the Kubuntu 9.10 partition of my
PC. Thank you very much!*

> Try replace /etcX11/xorg.conf with below:

>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> Driver "vesa"
>
> delete all other entries.
> Reboot and see if there is an improvement.



*Yes, there is  a considerable improvement!  Via the edit function of
'Midnight Commander"  I carried out your advice with respect to the
xorg.conf file. Than, I saved the changes, closed the editor and Midnight
Commander. After coming back in the normal command line, I rebooted via the
command 'reboot'. Now, the screen/ Window Manager looks perfectly acceptable
again.

A few minor points of attention remain for now:
*

   1. *Do I need to do anything else with respect to the xorg.conf file? *
   2. *If the answer to question 1  is 'yes': do I need to do anything in
   that file and/ or anywhere else to optimise it for the graphical card I have
   in this PC? See also below: output of the command line test "spci | grep VGA
   *".
   3. *In the xorg.conf file I found the following advise: **If you have
   edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated again, run
   the following command:
   #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg.* *Would you advise me to
   do so?*
   4. *Is there anything else I could do in order to avoid the kind of
   complications i had yesterday?*
   5. *Is there a way to manually get back the desktop plasma at the screen?

   *
   6. *Is there a way to make the panel below and it's widgets slightly
   bigger: about 110% compared to their dimensions now? Also other items at the
   screen are a bit smaller compared to what I am used to. In some packages
   like Firefox and OpenOffice I can zoom out a bit. But how can I zoom out
   elsewhere in the system?
   *



> If there is, post the output of: lspci | grep VGA
>
>

*This is the output I get:

**bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0e)
bas at Viaconsensus1:~$**

Here, this message finishes. Thanks, respectfuly yours,

Bas.



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