borked xorg

i messed with the video settings of ubuntu, shutdown and then went off to a client. i open up the computer and i get a console and a note that some settings doesn’t work and that the xserver has to be shutdown.

grrrr… sorry about that bam. really.

i found out that i had to re-autodetect the video card using:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and i got the gui back after a reboot.

it may be a good idea to have a “safe” xorg configuration file for use at a later time when things go bork again:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.safe

so if x decides to take a little vacation just copy back the “safe” config.

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