[ubuntu-za] nvidia graphics

[Hilton Gibson]

The functionality to restart the xserver was removed.
There may be references to this in old docs.
It used to be the keyboard combination: CTL+ALT+BACKSPACE

Cheers

hg.


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, miles sharpe <msdomdonner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:21 +0200, Hilton Gibson wrote:
>> Hi Miles
>>
>> To restore everything to a sane level, type the following in a terminal:
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>> Then reboot.
>>
>> Then search for "envy" in Synaptic and install.
>> Or search for "nvidia xserver xorg" with google and find out how-to to
>> make your X server settings persisten across logins and reboots.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> Hi Hilton. Thanks for coming back so quickly.
> I will try what you said. Please how do your restart your xserver.
> I dont even know what that is. I am very new to ubuntu and struggle a
> bit as I had a bad accident and got some brain damage, now I'm even more
> stupid than I used to be. I am a bit scared that I wont get it all
> restarted and have to reinstall as I used to with windows before I was
> enlightened into Ubuntu.
> Thanks again.
>
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