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xorg package

Configure X server and intel drivers

Asked by Ishan A B Ambanwela

Hi,I'm quit new to Ubuntu.please help me

I had installed just ubuntu 8.10 and although my X server worked well I installed driver xf86-video-intel 2.6.0 in order to update OpenGL capability.My computer consist of intel G33 FB motherboard with on board graphics.

But now I need to install lg3d (Looking Glass Desktop Environment) which is based on X server.In session selection when Looking Glass selected it gives

"Fatal Error session exist less than 10 seconds... need to log out"

in details it says

"X server configure error.can not execute X server...".

It seems "xf86-video-intel 2.6.0" driver compiles against X server.Now I need to restore X server.
After googeling and according to Help Forum (noe i cant find !!! whi was about to restart X server)I tried in terminal

$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop ______and start as well as restart.

when stop it close GUI and but when start it gives a Gray dotted screen in which mouse works but no any icons or any thing.

the other Desktop Environment GNOME works great(seems with updated Driver) I can log in and do my stuff but I'm really need to experience Looking Glass.

can anybody help me to re-install X server??? thankyou

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Ufuk (ufukkilicaslan) said : 		#1

I think the package you installed, the xf86 package is an old package. It's not an xorg driver, it is from the old xfree86 desktop. Uninstall what you installed.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

command will restore your xorg.conf file. But you need to uninstall the wrong driver and install the correct driver.

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Ishan A B Ambanwela (ishanaba) said : 		#2

Will you please explain how to uninstall those correctly?
To install also I didn't know about very much that.I just compiled and just make install.
I have told you without special drivers I could work every thing.I did what u asked to do it gave a warning about it and made a backup also xserver but still i cant use looking glass.!
thanks

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Best Ufuk (ufukkilicaslan) said : 		#3

I don't know what package you installed, but you should install xserver-xorg-video-intel package for intel graphics card.

If you want to uninstall compiled package, you should cd into directory of what you installed and use:

sudo make uninstall

command.

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Ishan A B Ambanwela (ishanaba) said : 		#4

Thank you,Tank you very much.now I'm working well !!