command gdm

[Donny George]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> hi  bhagat
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>> i tired the command sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
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>> but it just says
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>> stopping gnome display manager
>> starting gnome display manager
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>> and returns to the prompt again
>>
>
> something must have gone wrong with your display settings.
> Do one thing, backup yor X configuration file :
> $sudo /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
>
> Then run,
> $sudo dpkg-reconfigure
>
> Hopefully that should detect your Display settings correctly
>
> Thanks,
> Raseel
>
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> i had earlier tried doing a command sh Xinstall.sh as a part part of
installing a software called COMSOL, and thats wen all this trouble started
and this software wanted xfree86. i feel like these files clashed with my
existing gnome display


does this give you somewhere insight as to wat i need to do to get to my
desktop


i only want to get my old desktop, i dont want the new software anymore

donny

donny
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