Cant access the monitor display settings

[robertgibson]

Hey there!

I upgraded my Kubuntu last night and now I can no longer change my display settings. I have a dual monitor setup which will now only display as clones. Before the upgrade I could go to the system settings and change the settings under "Display and Monitor". Now all I get is the settings for the screen saver. I can type "Screen" in the search bar and find the right entry, but when I open "Display Settings" it just gives me an empty window with no options.
This is kind of a deal breaker for me. I really need both monitors. Help please!

Cheers,
Robert

[ronw]

Install either kscreen, seems to be the new default, or kde-workspace-randr

[robertgibson]

Its an Nvidia Geforce Something and as far as Updates that was basically the first thing I did after the new version of Kubuntu was installed.
I checked the package manager, did all the updates and I opened the terminal and typed in that sudo Update thingy.
Well, now I can't even start Kubuntu any longer. It just sits at the start screen with the new Kubunto Logo and that's how far I get.
Any suggestions?

[robertgibson]

Cool, but how do I select an older kernel version or do anything for that matter, if the OS won't even boot? I noticed that the new Kubunto logo has a glowing pulse animation. The logo will show up and after about three animation cycles, it just freezes. The cpu doesn't seem to be doing anything either.

[robertgibson]

All right, I pressed ESC and I get a long list of starting services (or whatever the linux equivalent is called in this case). All of them get an OK flag, except for two items in the list:
1. Restore sound cards mixer states
2. Reload cups
Both of these have a Failed flag.
The list then ends with "Stopping" and that's when everything freezes up.
I'm wondering isn't there any way to revert everything back to and older state, similar to Windows's Recovery Feature? Everything was working just fine until I upgraded.

[robertgibson]

Hey guys, thanks for all the help, but I gave up. I reached the point where figuring out how to fix this issue was taking up more time than just reinstalling the whole sucker. So I did the latter. Wiped the partition and installed a fresh Kubuntu and now everything works. I know this is a terrible way of solving problems, but I just got too fed up in the end.