How to recover from a display driver problem[followup]

[Jim Byrnes]

On 04/10/2016 02:23 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 04/10/2016 01:47 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 04:39 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>>> Try rebooting into the advanced recovery options again and selecting
>>> "enable networking". That is actually "enable network, check
>>> filesystems, remount everything read/write and then give me a root
>>> shell" so it's pretty much exactly what you want.
>>
>> Sorry, I was working from memory; that's the way it used to work. I
>> just checked in a virtual and it's two steps now. First "enable
>> networking" then "drop to a root shell".
>>
>> The result is the same - network running, filesystem checked,
>> everything mounted r/w and a root shell.
>>
>> Regards, K.
>>
>
> Trying to figure out this problem has messed up my mind. Sure enough
> enable networking was right there in front of me and I didn't realize
> it's significance.
>
> That worked and enabled apt-get to do it's thing. Was able to boot to
> 14.04 with no crashes. My HP monitor is at a higher resolution than my
> no name one, but the system is usable.  I solved that problem at the
> original install so I should be able to do it again.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help. Liam, Petter and especially Karl, who was
> able to keep giving me solutions to try until I was successful.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>

And the solution to the differing resolutions turned out to be the same 
as when I went from 10.04 to 12.04 a couple years ago. Simply copy 
xorg.conf from 12.04 to 14.04.  Thank goodness for archives.  Googling 
brought up the thread where I discovered that solution.

Regards, Jim