Comment 12 for bug 107947
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| kripken (kripkenstein) wrote Re: Nvidia binary driver causes progressive breakage | #12 |
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Indeed, things went 'horribly wrong' :)
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" appeared to go well, monitor resolution AND refresh were written correctly during setup - 1024x768@60. Yet, when actually trying to use them, metacity once more failed to load, and what was much worse, I couldn't use the keyboard on a terminal window (perhaps the x.org changes modified my keyboard incorrectly?). A failsafe GNOME session loaded with metacity fine. I tried once more normally, and the resolution was too low, and again no metacity.
I again used a failsafe GNOME, and restored the old xorg.conf. This didn't work, surprisingly! I restarted yet again, and removed the nvidia binary driver via the Restricted Drivers Manager. Another restart, and resolution&refresh is fine in "nv". Yet metacity is not loaded - perhaps this is an unrelated issue, I am starting to think.
Anyhow, I am stuck with "nv" once more. Now, I am quite sure the problem isn't my monitor or graphics card; both worked fine with Edgy until 2 days ago. It seems a big coincidence for one of them to fail just as I install Feisty.