I’ve installed a new graphics card, plus I installed Vista Business in my old hard drive.  Thank goodness I got Vista for free due to my college’s special arrangement with MSDN’s academy program.  I would not pay up for Vista, especially when my desktop box is not “optimized enough” for Vista Aero.

Anyway, when I booted up to Ubuntu, the Xorg.conf did not load up properly and I have a command line interface screen.  What should the Carol do?

It turns out that because I have added my new graphics card that Xorg freaked out. I just have to reconfigure the settings. Here’s how:

You log in at the command line interface and you are at the prompt.  Type in this command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

You will have to enter the superuser password before you can configure.  Follow the instructions, and reboot.  I was successful…but YMMV in your situation.