Activating video card

[jonathan731]

Hey Everyone,

The other with the help of another member i got ubuntu to work by editing my xorg.conf file, I believe its called. Now im trying to activate the driver for my video card but it tells me i cant because the xorg.conf file is not valid. What should i do?

[portia]

What should i do?

Could you post the your xorg.conf, please?

[jonathan731]

This is what the file says minus the comments,

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

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

[portia]

Can you post the exact error message that you get?

[jonathan731]

Reconfiguring X.org video drivers is not possible: /etc/X11/xorg.conf is invalid.

[portia]

try the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[portia]

Also, what graphics card have you got?

[jonathan731]

but if i do that will it bring back the xorg file to what it was originally? the reason I changed it is because it stopped the screen from showing anything

[portia]

So try to backup your existing xorg.conf

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

You'll be able to come back to it.
Can you change any parametres while reconfiguring X?

[jonathan731]

ok so i followed what you said. Then i went back to drivers and when i tried to activate it says:

SystemError: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock