Problem with graphic card.

[Simon Wong]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:37 +1000, Karl Bowden wrote:
> If you log in as root, from the bash prompt try:

Which is disabled in Ubuntu by default!

> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

So what you need to do is login as your standard user

        login: user
        password:
        
        $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then follow Karl's instructions...

> The first thing it prompts for is the driver for your video card. Most
> are fairly easy to pick.
> The rest of that setup should be as easy as just hitting enter the
> rest of the way.
> 
> If you get into trouble and X starts but you cannot see the screen for
> some reason you can kill it by hitting CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE

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