Comment 3 for bug 305221

Woa, thanks for the quick response :) here are the results. (rather dismal im afraid)

1) from the first code, Im not getting anywhere below are what i get when i type in sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci.log and varitions as youll see

jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci.log
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci.log
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ su lspci -vvnn > lspci.log
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ lspci -vvnn > lspci.log
su: invalid option -- 'v'

jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$

im dead sure i have the right password- I installed it, im sole user, when i type it in to update my system it authenticates
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2) from /var/log/Xorg.0.log i get
    a) jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        bash: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Permission denied
    from /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old i get
     a) jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
bash: /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Permission denied

ive tried putting "Su" or "Sudo" in front but neither gets me anywhere.
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3) From /etc/X11/xorg.conf i get:
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ /etc/X11/xorg.conf
bash: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Permission denied
jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ su /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Unknown id: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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as far as the display issues. I can use the "standard" desktop(s) with no problems at all- so long as i havent installed any graphics drivers. installing a graphics driver at all gets me the kinit from my OP. upon reboot.