lost X after todays update

baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Mar 17 02:28:46 UTC 2005


baza wrote:

> oracledarren wrote:
>
>> Well that was certainly thorough, but I dont think doing such long
>> reports wins you too many points  :(
>>
>> I had this problem and it is easy to fix
>>
>> Drop down to a terminal (right click on desktop and select terminal)
>>
>> type su
>> enter your password
>>
>> type dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>>
>> Then just follow the prompts and when its done reboot or just restart x
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> baza at barbelith:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/xorg.conf; file has
>   been customized
> baza at barbelith:~$
>
>
This is weird, I thought I'd fixed it, but when I rebooted I had no 
display and could only get X at 1024X768. Then I hit crtl+Alt+F7 and 
found the Gnome login screen running at 1280X1024, eh? What's going on 
here??

Baza




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