I went through these same paces a week or two ago, so it’s fresh in my mind. Don’t worry, it’ll work. The ironic part would be if you made all these changes and then discovered that the original tweak didn’t do that much for you!

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

And if I use the old standby, I get even less of an xorg.conf:

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
EndSection

I’ll play around with it another day. That’s what our lovely backups are for

Try this. Enter privileged mode.

sudo -i

Move to the /root directory.

cd ~

Configure X manually.

X -configure
nano -w xorg.conf.new

Now copy it into place.

cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I use copy there because a lockup or a configuration mistake sometimes causes my xorg.conf file to “disappear” , and I like to have a spare in case of emergency. You can never have too many spare xorg.conf files.

This addition broke X completely on Intrepid. I restarted X and was immediately thrown into
“Ubuntu is now running in Low Graphics mode” and something about not being able to parse a configuration file. I did a full reboot, with no effect. Of course, a quick edit to xorg.conf fixed me right up and I’ve removed the offending section.
Strange, it seems Ubuntu is now managing a majority of the X system now under the hood, so to speak. Interesting…

For disclosure, I’m running
AthlonXP 3200+
2 gigs ram
Nvidia 6600GT 128mb with proprietary blobs from the Restricted Driver Manager.

Just some feedback

# 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”
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “nvidia”
Option “NoLogo” “False”
EndSection

## added by laire per KMandla
Section “ServerLayout”
Option “BackingStore” “true”
EndSection

Rebooting. Wish me luck

I hope it doesnt blow up my pc

( x.x)