[Xastir] Oops...

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:08:36PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <needhame1 at plateautel.net> flavor, containing:
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>  	Well, as I was booting up my laptop tonight, with the intent of using 
>  Xastir, and perhaps even asking about modifying the source code myself --
> 
>  	Well, actually, let me ask anyway -- can I modify the source code myself 
>  for various reasons, and then compile and install it?  Or is there some 
>  checksum or something to prevent that?  I have a thought to experiment with 
>  the slope in SmartBeaconing.

You can absolutely do that.  There is nothing preventing it.  It is encouraged.
If you are using the CVS version of Xastir (instead of a release tarball) and 
you screw up a file beyond your ability to fix it, you can just remove that 
file and type "cvs update" and the unmolested version will return.

>  	And back to my original thought -- something weird has happened to my 
>  screen.  Any setting larger than 600 X 480 is all distorted and not usable, 
>  but booting into Windows XP or even the Kubuntu live cd are just fine.  Is 
>  there a way to renew the video driver from the live CD???

You shouldn't have to reload any driver, as that is very, very unlikely 
to be the cause --- odds are good it's just a configuration mess-up.  Can you 
think of any event that triggered the problem (like installing some new 
package, or monkeying with a set-up utility)?

As for recovering a set-up that works from the Live CD, I can't help you there.
I don't think the "repair" function on the Alternate Install CD can be used
for that.  You definitely don't want to take the Windows approach of
reinstalling the system to fix that issue, and I think that's close to what
the "repair" feature does.

I'm at a loss for what kind of configuration mess-up might cause that kind 
of problem, but you might find some hints in the "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" file.
It's possible that X is confused as to what kinds of modes are available.
You might want to post to a Kubuntu forum to get more help on that.

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