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On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 17:57, Mike Tidball wrote: > Ive been trying to get the nvidia 3D drivers installed and the final step according to an artical I read somewhere on the net was to alter a config file. > The trouble was i didnt have the file they refered to only 3 similarly named files. > I edited them all as changing the first made no difference but now when the login screen is about to display the screen flickers about 3 times and then goes to a login screen with just a promp.I think X is failing to start. > I can cd to the directory and dir it to see the 3 files but I dont know the commands to open them so I can edit them back and save them. > Any help would be apprciated. > Mike Tidball Oh ouch! u must have something there to edit them. Try mc vi emacs They all contain help files. Or even better man mc or man vi before you open them. Just a word of advice when ever changing .config files or any for that matter try this cp /etc/filename /etc/filenameORIGINAL ,etc being the directory in which the file resides. Hey but i had to learn that the hard way as well ;) Also when ever you change anything. make a comment the hash '#' sign. This tells the system to ignore the following text. i.e VertRefresh 50.0-100.0 # Luke changed this to see if it made a difference!
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