lost X after todays update

[mark]

Daniel Stone Wrote: 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:02:49PM -0500, mark wrote:
> > I've gotten into the habit of running "dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg"
> > after any of the upgrades that have ANYTHING to do with the kernel,
> > xorg, nvidia, etc.  (Okay, I'll still try & boot normally,
> but...today
> > was a good example - lots of xorg stuff upgraded, tried a normal
> reboot
> > & got the "nv" driver at 1024x768.) It ain't the most user-friendly
> > thing around, but, hey, it's still a preview release...
> 
> Yeah, xorg 6.8.2-4 is broken in this regard.  -5 will fix it, but I'm
> just waiting for array 7 to get released before I upload that.  In
> the meantime, running:
> RECONFIGURE=true sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> will get rid of that braindamage.  Yeah, this sucks.
> 
> > BTW - Daniel, anybody - I've been booting the recovery kernel and
> > re-running "nvidia-glx-config enable" before the "dpkg" routine
> > mentioned above - is this necessary, or am I overdoing things?
> 
> Not really; if you're using the nvidia driver then it will just stomp
> over your config anyway.  If you want to use the nvidia driver, you're
> best to run sudo dpkg-..., then run sudo nvidia-glx-config-enable.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
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As usual, I get it just a**-backwards...<g>...Thanks!

Mark


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