First of all I have an Nvidia geforce 9800 gt and here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:
Code:
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Default Device"
    Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
EndSection
I feel there should be a lot more to it and found that if I booted into recovery and selected root shell
and entered Xorg -configure that a new file would be built named xorg.conf.new which I could then rename xorg.conf.
However when I tried to do that it said it is in read only mode and that was that.

In 12.04 it appears when you login to recovery that everything is read only.

Any one have a clue how to fix this?

Also, when I boot into recovery mode and enter sudo service lightdm stop it does not stop the X server but, instead appears to restart it as I am looking at the regular login screen.

My primary goal is the stop the X server to be able to manually install the latest Nvidia driver and sudo service lightdm stop does not do the job.

I have already tried the xswat ppa which was a complete disaster resulting in the necessity to do a clean install.

Any advice on fixing this would be greatly appreciated.