Xorg configuration?

JonJ678 · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:11

Hey. I've just added a 9600gso to my computer in the interests of folding at home. However Ubuntu seems incapable of setting up Xorg for me, and I cant work out how to do this manually.

Could someone point me in the right direction please? I'm currently running off a livecd and unsure what to do from here

kkelly · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:30

When you boot ubuntu there is a recovery option (esc at grub) that will try to fix your xorg config, i normally use this to run in low graphs mode until i fix my problem

You could post the contents of your xorg config here as someone with with more knowledge will be able to fix it.

Open a terminal window and type in 'gedit /etc/xorg.conf' and post it here

Earth[Tera].bin · 13 Jan 2009 at 20:50

Alternatively if Ubuntu fails to resolve the issue, you can use the command Xorg -configure , which will hopefully detect the new card.

Then copy over the xorg.conf.new to the /etc/X11.xorg.conf ( sudo cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf .

Minto · 13 Jan 2009 at 21:35

intrepid auto generates xorg on every boot and just works with a skeleton file with not much in it.

.walls · 14 Jan 2009 at 18:47

Minto said:
intrepid auto generates xorg on every boot and just works with a skeleton file with not much in it.

'tis quite clever... until it doesn't work...

Code:

X -configure
cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

should get you going.