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[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> eeek.   In case you didn't realize,  your whole graphical system is
>> called Xorg.   Xorg is the replacement for XFree86.   It sounds like
>> you tried to manually install an old XFree86 over your existing Xorg.
>>
>> I think you've made a real hash of things here.   IMHO, your easiest
>> solution maybe to back up your home folder and any other config files
>> you know you need and reinstall....

> oh is there no other way other than a reinstall :(

I don't think so.   That's a big reason why staying inside the
repositories or making packages and using apt to install them is
really the way to go.  Backing out of source installs - especially big
systems like X - is quite difficult.  Backing out of changes made
using apt/Synaptic is easy.

There's no reason to think your home folder was mucked up though.
Back it up, reinstall and you're 90% back to where you were.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news,

Brian