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I've been a bit of a newb, I seem to have corrupted my xorg file or something, as I'm unable to run startx or startkdm due to an nvidia driver problem.
Can anyone tell me what the command is to revert back to the default graphics drivers where from installation? I can't start up KDE and have to post this using Lynx at the command line (I'm laughing at myself for this)
I installed the nvidia package from synaptic pkg manager, and ran the command that was listed at the bottom of the info page for that package, seemed fine to me, but after restarting X server i'm screwed!
If you're using Ubuntu like your profile says, try running from the command line sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select either the "nv" driver or the "vesa" driver.
Assuming that it is not as simple as what general failure suggest this may help. It is a couple less steps then pljvaldez suggest although his way is probably the most correct way.
I screwed one of my systems up by installing the wrong video driver on an Ubuntu 7.10 system before too. The fix was to get rid of the xorg.conf file-- I just moved it to a backup file. The next time I started X xorg.conf was rebuilt with usable settings. I am guessing this will solve your issue also.
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