Re: [EUGLUG] Digest for euglug@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[JS Kaplan]

Try temporarily removing or renaming your xorg.conf. This should at least get you going again until you can debug if you are on a debian base of relative freshness.

If ubuntu or mint, there are a few, not many, successful discussions on multi headed monsters. I think they majority use a single video card with a dvi and a vga connector. I've tried repeatedly to do it using multiple video cards and have failed every time. An SLI series may to it, but from what I saw only kde really supports this. Some but not all work with Mint's Mate, but not cinnamon, and partly ok with Ubuntu. Maybe try openSusE?

Kaplan


 screwed up

Wes Morgan <mor...@efn.org> Jan 23 10:11PM -0800  

I must have screwed this up real good.
I hope I have not gotten to the point where I have not damaged the
installation itself.
 
sudo xfix wouldn't process
 
 
Didn't work
 
sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
sudo apt-get remove compiz
 
sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
 
|dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia|
 
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop|
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf|
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia
 
||
 
|sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop|
 
|sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf||
sudo apt-get update||
sudo apt-get upgrade|
 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get remove|--|purge xserver-xorg
 
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.notworking
sudo X -configure
sudo cp ~/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
 
Right now when I enter dmesg, the computer gets caught up on loading
extension GLX
 
Wes Morgan
 
 
 
 
On 1/21/2014 1:51 PM, Hippy Nerd wrote:


 

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[Wes Morgan]

Just to make sure would this be

sudo apt-get remove xorg.conf
sudo apt-get install  xorg.conf

Wes Morgan

[Stead Halstead]

You won't need to use apt-get, since it's just a single file. You should be able to sudo mv xorg.conf xorg-old.conf if you're in the correct directory.

This is my first contribution! Feel free to correct. Thanks!

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Stead Halstead

[Horst]

> This is my first contribution! Feel free to correct.

Welcome !  -- I think you are right on,

General tip: if you are getting tired of the silly sudo dance, just "sudo su"  and become root like in the the good old days.

Still, make sure root's bash history is loged in root's .bash_history (if on bash), to document what was done.

 - Horst

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Subject: Re: [EUGLUG] Digest for eug...@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[Hippy Nerd]

You probably want to do "sudo su -" that will give you roots path and
environment. It will also put you in /root, so you may need to cd back
to wherever you were before sudo.

[Wes Morgan]

Hi everybody:
    Thank you for your suggestions but I have not been able to get Ubuntu to boot up properly.  I am going to have to do a install.  I have Ubuntu in dual boot with XP which has become rather buggy.  Does anyone know where I can get a free Windows 7 to build a new dual boot?

Here is all of the stuff I tried from the last communication.
Wes Morgan

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

(and also install "build-essential" if you haven't).

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-doc devhelp

 

sudo apt get install gnome-core-devel build-essential install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk2.0-doc devhelp

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

 

sudo mv xorg.conf   xorg-old.conf

 

sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg

Install xorg using the following command

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg

Reconfigure xorg using the following command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

 

 

sudo apt-get install xorg openbox

X11 Server Installation

To install a minimal X11 on Ubuntu Server Edition enter the following:

sudo apt-get install xorg

sudo apt-get install openbox

 

If you certainly have run into this problem , simply type in the following commands:

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install fxlrg

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg

sudo apt-get install xorg

sudo apt-get install xorg openbox

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

 

 

 

 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install unity

worked for me once