X failure after upgrade to Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> writes:
>
>   Anyone know where the X stuff is hidden (umm, normally 
> stored) in Ubuntu so I can get X to work again?
> 
> Context: 10.04 machine, freshly updated, then took the bait of going
> to 10.10 last night.  (An auxilliary machine, nothing important on
> it yet.  Trying to get koha running on it.)  During the upgrade,
> there was a failure in downloading a chinese ttf font.  System
> claimed to recover by running dpkg --config -a and said all was
> ok. When it started for the first time I got the Ubuntu 10.10 splash
> - then much churning, and finally dumping to console.  The error
> that seemed to pop up was it could not find the nvidia driver.
> Despite the obvious reasons why nvidia s*cks, why would 10.10 decide
> to dump nvidia support? The video card in question is OLD, but it is
> good enough.

If it's that old, does Nvidia still actually support it?

And does the driver that Xorg ships (Nouveau, in the
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package) not work?

> So how does one start the X configuration again?  IIRC, 
> there used to be routines like xf86config, etc that could be 
> used to reconfig X.  All I need to is to get the screen 
> going again at some half decent resolution.  Eventually, it 
> would be nice to have something like 1600x1080 or so.

Isn't /etc/X11/xorg.conf supposed to be basically empty
on Ubuntu, these days, with everything autoconfigured?
Just ensure that you have an applicable driver installed
and it should work?

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