9.10: xfix option has disappeared from Recovery Mode

[Pjotr123]

In Karmic, the xfix option seems to have disappeared from Recovery Mode.

Does anybody know why, and what can we use now to repair a broken graphical environment, after booting into Recovery?

[Pjotr123]

Bump.... Anyone?

[squareff255]

I figured it out. The long way... this is for default settings, so if you have a video card (like I did) I can't help. Sorry.
Go into recovery mode and drop to a root shell. Then make a copy of your xorg.conf file like so:

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup

Then, edit it by using this command:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and make sure it all looks like this:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    
EndSection

Then hit cntrl+X to exit the editing and it will ask you if you want to save changes. Hit "y" and enter. Then type "reboot".

[philinux]

Or make a backup and then delete xorg.conf.

[Pjotr123]

By default, in 9.10, there is no xorg.conf anymore in /etc/X11.... Probably because everything connected with X is all auto-detection nowadays.

Well, maybe you can manually create a xorg.conf, which hopefully will take precedence on the auto-detection. But you have to know exactly what to put in it, then...

All the nifty tools we used to have, have disappeared. First "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", then "displayconfig-gtk", and now even "xfix".