Desktop striated and reiterated every quarter of the screen.. help!
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Desktop striated and reiterated every quarter of the screen.. help!
Ok I tried to upgrade from gibbon to heron and it failed, I rolled back the changes (it did it automatically) and submitted a ticket. Now my boot menu has *.24.* and *.22.* to choose from, and both have the same problem.
The screen is horizontally striped, viewable, black, viewable black. and there are 5 or 6 cursors on screen (each with their own superimposed desktop). All in all there is no means of viewing anything on screen. I killed and restarted gdm, and rebooted to .24 and .22.
The neighborhood's power died and when I rebooted it this happened.
I do have ssh installed, so any ideas on how to fix this?
BTW I am using a NVIDIA driver, how can I reset that to the linux generic driver via terminal?
What you describe is almost certainly the wrong resolution being passed to / used by your video driver.
I don't suppose Ubuntu has an Xorg repair wizard on the Live CD. (MEPIS does, but I think they, Canonical, haven't copied that idea yet.) There is a totally outside chance that a SimplyMEPIS 6.5.02 (& only 6.5.02) Live CD might be able to fix your problem. -- Reason, 6.5.02 uses the Dapper repos, has the Xorg repair wizard, & can run the nVidia driver on boot.
Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+KeyPadPlus & Ctrl+Alt+KeyPadMinus to see if you can get something readable?
Do you still have a Gutsy Live CD?
What happens when you boot w/ it?
Alright I found a recovery mode on boot, and used x-server repair (it said setting up swap partition failed... which was weird, but everything worked alright), then I used dpkg repair broken packages. It found problems with G++ and openssl, it downloaded replacement packages.
I then booted and everything was back to normal.
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