[Techtalk] killed my xserver

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:42:24AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Maria McKinley thought:
> Conor Daly wrote:
> > 
> > I can't be much help but did you try as root:
> > 
> > X -configure
> > 
> > This should probe and generate a /root/xorg.conf.new or similar.  Then you
> > run:
> > 
> > X -xf86config=/root/xorg.conf.new
> > 
> > to test (I can't remember the exact syntax there but the X -configure
> > command should give you the correct command to run).  If it works, that
> > should give you the standard grey screen with the 'X' cursor.
> > <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill that.
> > 
> > Conor
> 
> Is this different than doing dpkg-reconfigure?

Dunno.  I'm not debian-literate, coming from an RH / fedora background.
 From what I know about debian, I would have thought it would but you
never know.

That said, your fonts problem may be the real issue...

Conor
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