Made Gutsy use my video card

[skatinjj]

After having Gutsy use my video card, it told me to log out and restart xserver and after that everytime I reboot, it dumbs me in tty1. I have tried starting kde by typing: startkde ,but i just get I/O errors. I have also tried starting xterm by typing: xterm -geom -0+100. No matter what I put for display it won't open. I'm now at a lost about what to do, any suggestions?

[Rog131]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

Maybe these:

HOWTO : Repairing xorg.conf
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082808.0

How to get started with no GUI
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085112.0

=>

#1 check Xserver log -> what's up

#2 try to repair

#3 reconfigure xserver

[skatinjj]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

Thanks for the help

[opie]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

Rog has a good post that goes into depth. To give a simplified procedure, since 9 times out of 10 when someone is having X puke it is a video driver problem, you can reboot using the recovery boot option.
At the command prompt you can do:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and replace your driver in the Devices section to "vesa" so it reads
Driver "vesa"

The vesa driver should be compatible with pretty much anything and allows you to get back into the gui.

If your xorg.conf is really borked up and it isn't a graphics driver problem:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

described by Rog should get you going. The phigh simplifies the questions vs. reconfiguring without -phigh. Since it reduces the likelihood of user error I would use this approach before going through the more complex reconfiguration without -phigh.

[skatinjj]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

I did all that and I can get back into the GUI no problem. I want to have Gutsy use my video driver, but everytime I go and change it to my Intel 85x, it tells me to log out and restart xserver for changes to take effect. So I did and I get dumped into tty1. I do whats mentioned above and get back into the GUI. This also happens if I change the setting to Intel 85x and restart the computer. Any suggestions on how I can get my video card working?

[opie]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

Is there a particular reason why the vesa driver isn't acceptable?

[Rog131]

Re: Made Gutsy use my video card

Any suggestions on how I can get my video card working?

When you are in the text mode:

Check what is wrong:
Xorg.0.log is log file for X Windowing Server. It is in /var/log/.

In text mode:

:~$ nano /var/log/Xorg.0.log

"nano is a small, free and friendly editor".

Markers in the Xorg.0.log

Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

Just looking errors:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)"

Just looking warnings:

:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)"

That is from HOWTO : Repairing xorg.conf
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082808.0