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So, I was trying to install Compiz, or Beryl and was "Google" both, but the closest tutorial that I found was installing Beryl with an ATI card. In this machine, I have a Nvidia GeForce2 with 64mb of ram. I understand that this card won't be able to render smoothly, but this is my guinea pig machine. If I can do the install, and feel comfortable with it on this machine, Ubuntu is going on my main machine.
Anyway, the last straw was when I changed the line : Driver "nvidia"to : Driver "glfrx"
or something. I read this on one of the tutorials for the ATI card that I found.
Up until this point, the other configurations that I had changed, did nothing.So, now Ubuntu won't boot to the X server or even the option of safe terminal. I have tried to use the live cd, and change the file back, but with the live cd I can't read the hard drive files. Only the xorg.conf on the cd.
I have also tried to use Knopix STD. I can't see it with this either.I really don't want to reinstall the OS, this would be the fifth time that I have installed it on this system, and get all of the updates, and reconfigure everything.
Thoughts?
Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp
Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti
stingerssx
It's been a while since I ran Ubuntu but if you can get to a terminal I believe the command is
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. You might do better to submit your post to the Ubuntu Forum (http://ubuntuforums.org/). lol
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How do I get to the terminal? Just after the boot screen a message comes up showing me that this file is wrong. I can only veiw it though, I can't edit it.
Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp
Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti
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If you get to a command prompt when you boot you can try the "startx" command. I'm not up on what the Ubuntu live cd offers by way of repair but would think it includes an xorg repair option of some kind. Again, you will probably get a quicker, better, and more Ubuntu specific response from http://unbuntuforums.org. Meanwhile, you might consider SimplyMepis 6.5
(http://www.mepis.org). Good luck to you stingerssx.
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Did you download the nVidia driver 1st (apt-get) or just change the line?
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Yeah, I'm in the Ubuntu forums, as well as here. But the problem is that I can't get to a command line.
And, yes I did install the drivers previously to editing the file.
The Ubuntu live cd does not offer any type of recovery or repair options.
I will try SimplyMepis and get back to y'all.
But if anyone else has any idea on how to access this file without booting to the HDD, let me know.
Emachines T-2200, Sound Blaster live 5.1, ATI 9200se main comp
Asus A7N8X, AMD 2500 Barton, 1 gig Corsair, Geforce 4200ti
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You will need to know what hard disk you installed to. You should know this from when you did the install. I assume here that your hard disk is /dev/hda, and that the root was built on partition /dev/hda1. All of this information was available during the original install.
Boot the live CD.
Open a terminal.
Run:
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/os
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/osIt is the 'hda1' part that might have to change.
If that works, your X file(s) should be at:
/mnt/os/etc
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