How to recover from a display driver problem(updated)

[Jim]

On 04/10/2016 10:07 AM, Jim wrote:
> On 04/10/2016 06:03 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 9 April 2016 at 23:47, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Anyone have any ideas of how to correct this without a complete
>>> reinstall?
>>
>>
>> Boot off CD.
>>
>> Browse your root filesystem.
>>
>> Delete /etc/X.11/xorg.conf
>>
>> Reboot. You should be back to normal and can re-install the correct
>> driver.
>>
>
> Liam
>
> I have 2 HD,s in this machine, one with a working 12.04 and the other
> with 14.04.  Will booting from 12.04 work in place of using the live CD?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>

Had to get some work done so I booted to 12.04. While I was there I 
looked at /etc/X11/ (I have no X.11). I don't have a xorg.conf but I do 
have a xorg.conf.failsafe and a xorg.conf-backup-160409091258 both of 
which were modified during the time frame I was trying to recover from 
my problems.

Regards,  Jim