On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:34 +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:

Hi Many thanks for all the advice: I downloaded Suse 10.1x64 this weekend and it runs perfectly, and detect all my hardware, however, I am determined to get Kubuntu/ Ubuntu running as well The problem with the Xsever not starting in Ubuntu 64 bit appears forums, with the answer "change the driver from "nv" to "vesa" in xorg.conf" How can I edit xorg.conf from the command line? Kind regard- Nick Daniels

Lets not let this become a text editor flame war, but you should be able to do something like this:

$ su # nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf [here replace 'nano' for your fav editor [i.e. emacs ;-)

then look for something like: Section "Device" Identifier "Display Adpater Description" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection

and change the "nv" for "vesa" (I don't have an NVidia card so there may be lots of other options in this Device section; try commenting them out with #'s before deleting them!)

Save and exit: Ctrl+O; ENTER; Ctrl+X

then restart X:

# /etc/init.d/gdm restart [this works for me on Debian

[ you could also press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at the X login

Cheers, Richard