12.04 update problem - software re "hardware" update

[Liam Proven]

On 27 September 2014 23:53, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> So here I am at the CLI with no idea how to restore the functionality
> I had previously. Since this was supposedly just a simple software
> update, I did not do a system backup before hand - big mistake! What
> do I need to do to figure out what the problem is and fix it?


First step:

sudo -s
cd /etc/X11
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup

Then reboot:

shutdown -r now

If you had specific graphics drivers or something that no longer work,
this sets them aside. You're renaming the config file for X11 -- the
window server -- so that it will start with a default config and
auto-detect its graphics card config.



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