After performing some software updates, i restarted my dell lappy without knowing the horror that awaited me. Upon reboot, the screen shrank (800x600) and refused any changes to higher resolutions.
tens of minutes passed, to no avail, i have only met with a dead end. A thought made haste, time to resolve to the information world of wonders, the internet. Further scrutinizing lead me to X Server, a GUI that allows accessibility control (Keyboard, Screen, Graphic, etc).
Now the culprit have been identified, my nvidia x driver mysteriously got corrupted. quickly got into recovery mode and fixed the X Server, logged in and to my joy, all was fixed, at least that's what i thought...........
Ever so excitedly my fingers commanded the mouse to launch the burning crusade. Mayhem! Massacre & suffering......... the culprit was back, in fact he was still active when i thought i fixed him. I will have to turn to another strategy
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Finally Solve the problem!!!
I have tried reinstalling driver through apt-get, editing the xorg.config, and using synaptic package manager. None worked. below are the steps i did to get it done.
1. Download the driver from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.09.html
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 login as root
3. /etc/init.d/gdm stop (stops the X Server)
4. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run
5. follow the instruction provided.
6. reboot
Voila!! Problem solved.
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