Oh no, I've broken something already

[Thameslink]

Well everything was working a little bit to well for my liking, so in my efforts to figure out a way to monitor/control cpu temps and fans I messed up my synaptic packages oh or maybe a related app and it's saying frequency scaling is unsupported after boot up. It says the system maybe misconfigured which I'm sure it is NOW.

If anyone could tell me how to get back to where I started with out reinstalling ubuntu tht would be great

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is. It seems

it's a laptop vaio intel core2 duo T5500 1.66ghz
and was working perfectly

Thanks

[gettinoriginal]

Reboot > during grub splash, hit escape > Recovery mode > Enter (let finish)
Repair Broken Packages > Enter (if it asks about updates hit N) (let finish)
Try to fix X server > Enter (Let finish)
Resume normal Boot > Enter

hope this helps

[jerome1232]

Is cpu scaling turned off in you BIOS? That message pop's up for me if I have the cpu frequency scaling monitor in my panel and I have cpu scaling turned off in bios.