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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Compiz can be very slow on some ATI cards in general. Also it is a RAM hog. Glad you got it going and I bet, if this happens again, you will be able to fix it much quicker. Having the black log in screen is actually a good thing. You can edit the files you need to from the console using vim or pico. This is one great thing about linux. Even if the gui doesn't come up, you can edit certain files pretty easily to get it back working. Make a copy of your xorg.conf file and call it something like xorg.conf_working. This way you know that is a good fall back configuration. I had a similar issue trying to get dual monitors working on Debian. I finally got it working great and then the other monitor went out. I just copied the old xorg to the current one and I was back up and running in no time. What did you have to do to get it back working? Later, C:\ Loading...
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