Adam wrote:
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"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Adam wrote:
There ought to be a way to just reinstall the graphics subsystem rather
than
an all-or-none installation approach.
Yes you can. Did it for a borked install of the nVidia driver. reference
this:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/VideoDriverDetection#Problem:_Need_to_purge_-fglrx>
Thanks, even after doing the following...
Problem: Need to purge -fglrx
Typically, the following manual commands will properly uninstall -fglrx:
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
xserver-xorg-core
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
I still get that dreaded "The system is running in low-graphics mode"
error.
And, recovery mode failsafeX and Ctrl+Alt+F1 hangs with the following...
<more of the same>
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension Present
Initializing built-in extension DRI3
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension SELinux
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
<hangs here>
After trying the following...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/577093/how-to-install-gnome-desktop
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
http://tipsonubuntu.com/2014/06/06/change-display-manager-ubuntu-14-04/
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Not sure about ATI, but when you purge the nVidia driver it takes Unity
with it so I had to reinstall unity-desktop afterwards. If you want
lightdm but are now using gdm, maybe it happened because unity-desktop
was uninstalled and you just installed gnome-shell, your can reset:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
and select lightdm from the list.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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