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[El Guru (Al)]

Hmm last I check the Ubuntu Restricted Drivers Manager was blank.  But I am still on Windows at the moment.  The second part made no sense to me.  I still need to find out why I can't get to my third hard drive in Ubuntu which has all my data.  I'll boot up later today or tonight in Ubuntu and see if I can do anything with the Ubuntu Restricted Drivers Manager.  Thanks

[El Guru (Al)]

Al, To get some awesome screen resolution try these...

Ubuntu Restricted Drivers Manager -> Make sure your using these, then restart the computer and try changing the screen resolution again.

if that doesnt work, try...

Reconfiguring X-Server. X11 or X.org is the piece of software that creates what you see on screen, or at least thats how I understand it.  Reconfiguring it worked for me, but its tough. So read every screen carefully. There's one point where it asks you want screen resolutions you want, try adding the res u want to the list.

Let me know how it goes!

Tried going to the restricted drivers and got a pop-up saying my Hardware Doesn't Require Restricted Drivers.

[Nogg3r5]

Then ya need to reconfigure the X-server. Its really not that hard. Just choose the defaults for everything. Get on Google and find out how to backup you xorg.conf file, in case it all goes wrong, also find out how to restore it!! I forgot to do that the first time I made changes and had to reinstall. Keep ure live CD handy!!

[El Guru (Al)]

I think I broke it .  When it goes to the desktop now it is just a blank white screen.  I guess I'll need to reinstall as I tired the rescue option and that didn't seem to work correctly.  I'll do it over the weekend.  No biggie really just playing with Ubuntu so not like I lost everything.  May be this time around it will be able to mount my 'data' (secondary slave) drive.

[spock1982 (Ernie)]

Remember that you are not able to read NTFS drives right out of the box. There is a package you need to install first. This tutorial will walk you through.

[El Guru (Al)]

Interesting.  Once I get it working again over the weekend I'll take a look.

[spock1982 (Ernie)]

Good luck! I am really impressed with the latest Ubuntu. I have tinkered around with Linux for years and this distro is easily the best I have ever tried.

[Nogg3r5]

Interesting.  Once I get it working again over the weekend I'll take a look.

Was it just the xorg.conf that you borke? thats really easy to fix. I can get ya instructions.

[El Guru (Al)]

Was it just the xorg.conf that you borke? thats really easy to fix. I can get ya instructions.

Haven't clue, once I log in I am greeted with a white screen instead of the desktop.

[Nogg3r5]

Was it just the xorg.conf that you borke? thats really easy to fix. I can get ya instructions.

Haven't clue, once I log in I am greeted with a white screen instead of the desktop.

RIght, but what did you do before that happenned?

[El Guru (Al)]

Tried to reconfig the xserver.

[Nogg3r5]

eeeexcellent.

Thats easy peasy to fix. You wont need to reinstall. All you have to do is restore the config file. Because it created a backup for you, thats not going to be a problem.

You might wanna write this down or print it or something because your gonna need to remember it.

FIrst up, boot into ubuntu and wait until ti all goes wrong.

Then press Ctrl-Alt-F3 this *should* take you to a terminal prompt, you can login here. Your now using Ubuntu without X and Gnome.

At this point we want to go to the directory of the xorg.conf file. so we enter the command

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cd /etc/X11
That X has to be capital, or it will compain that the directory doesnt exist.

Now, enter this command to list all the files in the directory...

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ls
Form this point ya kinda have to figure a few thigns for ureself. You need to replace teh xorg.conf file with an older one. But, you wanna do this as safely as possible, you might need your xorg.conf later on.  So, take a look at the list of files, there  should be an xorg.conf backup there somewhere, its got a huge name with loads of numbers in. The numbers are the date and time at which it was created. IF ya can find one all ya have to do is remove the broken xorg.conf and replace it with a new one.

so, backup ure current xorg.conf...

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sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.broken  this just creates a copy with the .broken attached.

remove the old xorg.conf using...

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sudo rm xorg.conf
Then copy over ure backup

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sudo cp [i]yourbackup[/i] xorg.conf

Then all ya have to do is restart your computer in a nice safe fashion...

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sudo shutdown -r now
Hopefully, when it restarts, you should have your GUI back!!!

Good Luck, if ya get stuck, nogg3r5 at gmail dot com is my MSN and email address.

[El Guru (Al)]

Okay I'll give that a try in a couple minutes.

[El Guru (Al)]

Thanks got it working and even got my 1440x900 resolution now.  Next thing I need to do is find that post from Spock on getting my drive to mount.

[El Guru (Al)]

Remember that you are not able to read NTFS drives right out of the box. There is a package you need to install first. This tutorial will walk you through.

Okay that worked! I can access my files including all my music. Which now brings me to a new problem, I have no sound.  I am guessing Ubuntu didn't pick-up my sound card for whatever reason.  Suggestions on fixing this.  In n the mean time I am going to reboot into Windows so I can check my mail and do some other stuff.