[ale] help with hung dell after karmic install

[Tim Watts]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 15:40 -0700, JK wrote:
> ??? /etc/X11/xorg.conf was on my machine after a 9.04->9.10 upgrade.

Maybe because I wiped the drive clean then installed?

> Its contents were weird and uninformative, but it was there.  I'm not
> sure what that means, exactly.  Maybe the upgrade stubbed out xorg.conf
> in favor of some autoprobe magic.
> 
> 
> > So if I copy an old xorg.conf.failsafe to xorg.conf in /etc/X11 will X
> > know to use that or do I have to give it a special hint (e.g. in
> > startx)?
> 
> 
> You'll have to restart the X server, which I've never done on an Ubuntu
> box short of rebooting. Although I imagine something like
> 
>    /etc/init.d/gdm restart
> 
> will do the job.
> 
> -- JK
> 
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