my terminal goes blank after saving xorg and rebooting also i have no borders on windows

Asked by nichols garrett

i installed nvidia drivers for my nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X graphics car. and when i saved the xorg file and rebooted, the first thing i noticed was when i open terminal it's blank but it still works just no text or border and you can't see anything. Other windows like firefox have text and you can use them but the close minimize and maximize buttons are gone.
here is my xorg if it helps

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Sun Feb 1 20:21:04 UTC 2009

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Default Layout"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "HSP15"
    HorizSync 31.0 - 60.0
    VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Configured Video Device"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Default Screen"
    Device "Configured Video Device"
    Monitor "Configured Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

is anything wrong with it Oh and i'm running Ubuntu 9.04

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Best wojox (wojox) said :
#1

Yes it looks like nvidia appended to the file. See where you have two screen sections, two device sections, two monitior sections.

Open you terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then copy and paste this in it, save and reboot:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "Default Layout"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "Unknown"
    ModelName "HSP15"
    HorizSync 31.0 - 60.0
    VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName "GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X"
    Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option "TwinView" "0"
    Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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nichols garrett (nichols-garrett) said :
#2

ok so do i overwrite everything else??

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nichols garrett (nichols-garrett) said :
#3

Thanks that solved it

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nichols garrett (nichols-garrett) said :
#4

Thanks wojox, that solved my question.

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wojox (wojox) said :
#5

Did you get the borders back on your windows as well nichols?

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nichols garrett (nichols-garrett) said :
#6

yep everything came back