From CRT to LCD

[Richard Brown]

Hi Thilo

On Thursday 14 September 2006 15:44, Thilo Six wrote:
> It just says that your xorg.conf isn´t default anymore and therefore to
> prevent accidently overriding it checks it with the md5sum of xorg.conf
> and compares it with the default hash.
>
> two possibilities:
> 1. edit xorg.conf manually
>    which is basically:
>                       - alter the line >  Driver  "nv"          > to
>                                        >  Driver  "nvidia"
>                       - add:
>                         Section "DRI"
>                         Mode    0666
>                         EndSection
>
>                         to the end of xorg.conf
>
> 2. run
> md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
> then again
> sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
>
> which will do the same then.
>
> [hint]
> ...nobody ever sad you are not allowed to backup your xorg.conf somewhere.
> [/hint]  ;)

Big oops! Lost the graphical whatever when I did the sudo thing. Had to reload 
ubuntu in safe mode and do some command line stuff but guess what - took your 
hint and restored the backup and all is well! I think I will leave this for a 
while and try to get sound!

Thanks.

Rich