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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Don’t know what type on Nvidia graphics card you’re
using but hardware ace. In ‘on’ by default in most cases. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you want to explicitly specify….just edit “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”
…..under section “Screen”, add ‘Option “Accel”`<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>But since you cannot get X to start, I suggest you roll back any
drivers you installed previous to it working, login to a tty ‘ctrl-alt-F1’
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Steps <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>roll back (uninstall the restricted drivers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>reinstall xorg or x11-drivers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>you might have to edit xorg.conf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Once you get X running ….try commands like ‘glxgears’,
glsinfo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Good luck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jimmy Wu<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ubuntu-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> problem with Xorg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Something has gone wrong with my computer, and I'm not quite
sure what<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and I was trying to enable
hardware acceleration for my graphics card (nvidia).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>After searching around the internet, I found one suggested
method of doing so: go to Systems>Administration>Restricted Drivers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So I did that, and I checked enable for the nvidia driver
(it was the only one on the list).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Then, the Restricted Drivers Manager showed a progressbar
indicating that it was downloading and installing some packages.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>While it was doing that, my computer randomly restarted, and
now it fails to boot properly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A screen comes up that says could not load the X Window
System (I have 7.2), and an option to show more info. If I hit enter on that,
it displays some system info as well as the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Backtrace:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>0:/usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d91]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>1:[0xffffe420]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Fatal server error:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Caught signal 4. Server aborting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone know what happened?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Also, will reinstalling X solve the problem, and if so, how
do I go about doing that (from the <a href="http://wiki.x.org">wiki.x.org</a>
site, it seems I have to download a ton of .tar.gz files, unpack them, and
build them myself). I have very little experience compiling programs
from scratch, and I was wondering if there was an easier way to do it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Jimmy<o:p></o:p></p>
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