Urgent help needed - desktop/ screen Kubuntu Karmic does not function at all!

[David Kuntadi]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do I need to do anything else with respect to the xorg.conf file?

Yes, this is just temporary measure so that you could use your
computer. It is not optimum yet but keep that xorg.conf handy so that
as and when you face problem, you could use it for emergency.

> #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. Would you advise me to do so?

There is no harm to try it again but in my opinion it would not solve
the problem.

> Is there anything else I could do in order to avoid the kind of
> complications i had yesterday?
> Is there a way to manually get back the desktop plasma at the screen?
> Is there a way to make the panel below and it's widgets slightly bigger:
> about 110% compared to their dimensions now? Also other items at the screen
> are a bit smaller compared to what I am used to. In some packages like
> Firefox and OpenOffice I can zoom out a bit. But how can I zoom out
> elsewhere in the system?

I think that is kubuntu specific, which I do not use it. So, other
member should be able to advise you easily on the above settings.

> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0e)

What I suggest is to try below steps, hoepfully it works:

1. sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
2. Download one of below package, depending on your architecture:
For 64 bit: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25090563/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.6.3-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb
For 32 bit: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25090475/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.6.3-0ubuntu9_i386.deb

and install it, even if it is complain the package is old.

After finished the installation, run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

and reboot. Hopefully it works. If it works, lock the
xserver-xorg-video-intel to avoid being upgraded back to latest
version.

DK