gdm not starting

Sam Tygier samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 23 10:17:33 UTC 2005


Michael wrote:
> I have been tinkering around trying to get more screen resolutions in 
> GNOME, however when I tried to change them it caused gnome to freeze, 
> unfortunately on an unsupported setting.  So I am guessing that when gdm 
> treis to start up it tries to use that setting because gdm will no 
> longer start up.  Xorg.0.log has always done a good job of confusing me, 
> and now it is saying something about needing a screen defined for each 
> resource or something to that effect.  I shudder at the idea of having 
> to reinstall the whole ubuntu, as I have downloaded many packages that 
> were not small (to me) for it.  Does anyone on this list know how I can 
> fix this?
> 
> --Mike S
> 

this might save you

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

it will ask a few questions, but usually has the correct defaults. should get you back to roughly where you started.

sam

ps, its good practice to do 
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
before messing with an important file.

and also comment all the changes you make in a file, i do
#changed by sam, to do this, see http://where-i-got-any-info-on-the-change.org/
before any change

sam






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