Can not login to desktop

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:24:27AM +0800, smithveg wrote:
> hello,
> 
> before i update the packages, i still can play the games, but i can not plan
> the games anymore after i had upgrade the package, i my assumu that the
> graphic card driver was missing. So i just try to reinstall the graphic card
> driver. BUT after i install then i restart. I can not login to the desktop
> anymore. Can anyone tell me how to change the graphic settin to the default
> in console 1/2/3/4/5/6.

If you're in X, you can switch over to one of the consoles with
Ctrl+Alt+Fn where Fn is one of the function keys.

> 
> If i'm right, i think i should change at
> 
> sudo gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
> 
> BUT i seems can not open this file in console, can someone teach what to do 
> now?

If you want to try an easy to use command-line editor, try either nano
or pico (so you would do sudo nano
/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common). I can't remember
offhand which is the default in Ubuntu, but I'm pretty sure that it
comes with either pico or nano. If not, you can always use aptitude to
install it.

Hope that helps,

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Michael V. De Palatis
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