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update borked X #13

Closed nuclearsandwich closed 8 years ago

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

This is mostly a stub. I foolishly sudo apt update; and sudo apt upgrade'd yesterday and left my X system broken. It appears to be some combination of the nouveau driver explicitly recognizing and rejecting my discrete graphics card as unsupported and the malfunctioning of the modesetting driver I was apparently using before.

Setting the intel driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf was messing with fonts somehow. Yay!

nuclearsandwich commented 8 years ago

I still don't know what the deal was here and I kind of missed the bus on investigating further.

What's worse, the ongoing issue with lightdm not loading fonts correctly cleared up! So I have no idea what the problem was there.

Mitigation for X failing to start was explicitly switching from the modesetting driver to the Intel drivers. Naive attempts to use nvidia's proprietary drivers failed.