gtmaneki's Journal: Hosed

Well, I hosed my Linux setup when I was trying to install the drivers for my NVIDIA GeForce2 graphics card. Usually I download the drivers from NVIDIA directly, but this time I saw that there were some available through the Ubuntu repositories. I instialled them and restarted the X server, to be greeted with...nothing. I tried to manually edit my xorg.conf file and to generate a new xorg.conf file with the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg," but nothing worked.

So now I'm formatting the hard disk and starting over. I'm glad I listed what I did here. Hopefully that'll make it easier to start over. Unfortunately, I'll have to re-download all 1.0+ GB of the Linux NWN client again. Oh well.

gdm may be the problem

[tqft]

After the great xserver-xorg update debacle a few months back another handy command I learnt was sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm - but that may be too late for you to try right now