Two questions regarding new Ubuntu 8.10 install

[Paul Kaplan]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 11:05:28 Raquel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:16:35 -0700
>
> John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Bob St John wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I've got 2 questions regarding my new Ubuntu install:
> > >
> > > 1. The video is SiS 760 which apparently is not supported. The
> > > display gets really messed up once in while. I had exactly the
> > > same problem with a Fedora install. This is a known problem with
> > > Fedora, and the resolution is to set the display drivers to
> > > "vesa". This worked in Fedora, and I suspect it would work with
> > > Ubuntu. But I don't know how to change the video drivers in
> > > Ubuntu. Is it possible to change the video driver in Ubuntu 8.10
> > > to "vesa"? How can I do that?
> >
> > The only way that I know is to edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> > There is a section in there for video driver and you can set it to
> > vesa. I am not sure how to do this with a gui.
>
> I don't think it's usually a good idea to edit xorg.conf directly.
> Read the man page for dpkg-reconfigure then run it against your xorg
> configuration.
>
As long as you keep a backup copy you can edit to your heart's content and 
restart X to test new configs

I usually stop the kdm service (sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop), then login in two 
separate virtual terminals (Alt-F1, Alt-F2) and have one running a text editor 
(I use the one in mc since it's gui like) and the other to startx.

Paul