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[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Donny George:

>  need to work with. is there any way at all to roll back the changes
> made
no, you cant roll them back but overwrite what they overwrote, on
commandline you could try the following (but as i said that will
probably not clean up enough and leave a lot of cruft)

dpkg -l|grep xserver |grep ^ii

will give you a list of all installed xorg related packages ... 
now you could take the package names and run:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>

for every package you have in that list ... 

since thats hard and time consuming you can merge these two commands
into one, so try the following:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall 
 $(dpkg -l |grep xserver|grep ii|cut -d' ' -f3|tr '\n' ' ')

(the above needs to be one line with a space between the --reinstall and
the dollar sign, sadly mail wraps at ~80 chars)

if you are lucky it will work again after next reboot, if not you will
have to do the full reinstall ...

ciao
	oli
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