Move from K to U

[marc]

David Hopkins said...
> On 01/08/06, Tez <binary_y2k2 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > David Hopkins wrote:
> > > I've been using Kubuntu for several months now but would like to move
> > > to just plain Ubuntu. I obviously have quick a lot of packages
> > > installed + stuff in home directories. How easy would it be to make to
> > > switch? Will I need to re-install all my Kubuntu packages?
> > >
> > Just open up Adept or Synaptic and install the "ubuntu-desktop" package,
> > then you can choose if you want to run KDE or Gnome when you login.
> >
> I knew it wouldn't be that simple! I installed the ubuntu-desktop
> package and was able to pick between gnome and kde at login. I was
> also able to run all my favourite Kde apps from within Gnome. But
> Gnome kept bugging me about updates that were available so I went
> ahead and did one big update of 140+ packages.
> 
> It asked me to reboot after this which I did, but when it came back up
> the X server was all crapped up! I managed to get it back but only via
> the non-proprietary nvidia driver, so my desktop is now really
> s-l-o-w!

There might be a way out. IME, xorg.conf is usually saved when updated - 
multiple versions, with a numeric suffix, I think it might be that you 
can simply replace the borked xorg.conf with one that previously worked. 

(As an aside, I routinely keep backups of such files with date suffixes. 
But that doesn't help you now.)

Now, in addition, I think that there is something funky going on with 
updates to xorg.conf somewhere out there. I've had a couple of cases of 
it being changed radically after a couple of updates, and causing 
problems similar to yours - I also use the nvidia driver. I have saved 
copies of these xorg.conf files to compare, in case it should happen 
again.

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Best,
Marc