problem with Xorg

[Edward Dunagin]

On 7/5/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  I'll have to wait until tomorrow to try it.  I'm going to be busy
> for the rest of the day.
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> Jimmy
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> On 7/5/07, Njoku, George <njokug at winthrop.edu> wrote:
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> > Have you installed/reinstalled nvidia drivers……note that nvidia got their
> own linux drivers in website
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
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> > You might want to give it a try.
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> > Note: you'll have to switch to runlevel 2
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> > #init 2
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> > Then run …
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> > #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run
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> > George
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> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of
> Jimmy Wu
> > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:14 PM
> > To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> > Subject: Re: problem with Xorg
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> > Thanks to all who responded with suggestions.
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> > I really appreciate your help.
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> > @Frank: I did the dpkg-reconfigure, and then I restarted gdm (sudo
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart) and now I have my desktop again. Thank you :-)
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> > There still seems to be a problem though:
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> > glxinfo gives me some error messages, and glxgears isn't working either.
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> > When I find away to copy the output of glxinfo over to this computer, I'll
> post it.
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> > glxgears gives me something like
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> > Error: Couldn't get RGB, Double Buffered Visual
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> > Jimmy
 I guess one can get too much advice...


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