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As the title says, I tried to configure my Xorg files and this showed up.
First of all, I tried install my Wacom on my Zorin 12 OS, and when I rebooted, my keyboard, touchpad and USB-mouse didn't response. Only the Wacom tablet can be used now.
I tried Recover Mode in BOOT: Reinstalled Xserver Xorg and repaired broken files.
Nothing happened.
I can't even log in because my Wacom is touch.
Why? For most systems, nothing in /etc/X11/ should need to be touched by a user or admin.
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and this showed up.
First of all, I tried install my Wacom on my Zorin 12 OS, and when I rebooted, my keyboard, touchpad and USB-mouse didn't response. Only the Wacom tablet can be used now.
I tried Recover Mode in BOOT: Reinstalled Xserver Xorg
Reinstalling just Xorg? How? Installing the software can't be expected to undo any manual configuration done in /etc/X11/xorg.conf*.
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and repaired broken files.
Nothing happened.
I can't even log in because my Wacom is touch.
At the top of your image we can see that recovery mode boot used nomodeset, which is for performing troubleshooting and repairs, and often will cause X to fail to start at all. Until you provide specific information about your hardware, we cannot provide specific steps required for your particular hardware. Is this a laptop that features both Intel and NVidia or AMD GPUs, or a PC with multiple GPUs?
If you cannot collect and provide detailed information via booting, at least provide an exact model number of your PC, motherboard or laptop. There are various ways to provide detailed hardware information better than a mere model number, such as:
output from inxi -Gxxb (concise, yet good overall detail if run from within a terminal emulator in X)
output from lspci -v, or lspci -vv (verbose & more verbose)
hwinfo with various switches, such as --monitor for the display and --gfxcard for your GPU (very verbose)
other
We also need to see the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it exists, otherwise ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log, generated when you have not booted with nomodeset on the kernel cmdline (as in recovery mode).
Use the pastebinit command to upload either both Xorg.0.log and Xorg.0.log.old, or upload one that does not include nomodeset on the "Kernel command line", then post here the link(s) to the uploaded file(s). Images of the content of those files will not suffice.
In your other thread there was an image of inxi -G output. That command tells us little ("advanced data out of X"). It is best run as inxi -Gxx (and from within a running X session once you can get X running without using nomodeset). It showed only Intel Skylake.
Dual graphics (Intel + AMD) does require special configuration. Since I'm unfamiliar such configuration, and Zorin, I can only suggest to search through the various AMD setup howtos, starting with Debian or Ubuntu, from which Zorin is derived.
As I said before, my monitor, a Wacom touch tablet, doesn't have a keyboard so I can basically not copy anything from my OS.
I opened the Xorg.0.log file and the problem is the messages "This file may have been added with another device file" and "ignoring devices" is showing, when I try to connect Touchpad, USB etc.
As ondoho suggested in your other thread, installing from scratch is probably your best next move.
You should learn to boot and run a live distro for collecting data in text format from a broken installation. Screenshots provide limited utility.
If forced to use screenshots, you should try booting such that your vttys use a mode higher than 80x25. This can be done by editing the linux line using the E key at the Grub menu. If you have to use nomodeset to boot at all, then try appending also vga=791 or vga=794 to get more information on the screen. Without nomodeset, try specifying the native resolution of your display, such as video=1024x600, video=1366x768 or video=1920x1080, or a non-native mode between 80x25 and whatever native is, e.g. video=1440x900 or video=1280x720.
That's a very standard intel GPU that should "Just Work (tm)" on practically every Linux setup.
I suspect this has much more to do with your other thread, to the point that I recommend this one being closed.
What do you have in that directory? If you can boot to a command line run: ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf and post the output.
You might do the same with the directory: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d and while you are there, check to see if there is a configuration file with 'wacom' in the name. There should be. If you can open it you might post the contents and someone familiar with what it should contain may be able to help you. There are also configuration files for the mouse and keyboard but I personally have no idea what to do with them.
Not sure why you were trying to reinstall Grub in your situation?
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