XFree Broken For Good?

[Steve Haines]

An apparent glitch in the HD created a fatal error in booting 2.6.9. I ran 
fsck, and it found a lot to correct. After that I rebooted and got as far as 
the GDM waiting circle. No XWindows.

No amount of fiddling with md5sum, or dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 could 
straighten XWindows. I uninstalled, removed, purged xserver-xfree86, and then 
downloaded and reinstalled. Nothing. I reset sources.list to only Warty, and 
reinstalled xserver. Still broken, with a "sub-process Error 10" when I try 
to reconfigure. Apparently all is well from the command line.

Is there a way to completely start over with xserver and GDM without 
reinstalling Ubuntu? Or is the damage terminal? I am using the Libranet 
partition for the moment.