mark@mark-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel [sudo] password for mark: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: user-setup localechooser-data Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 609kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5 [609kB] Fetched 609kB in 0s (829kB/s) (Reading database ... 133834 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5 (using .../xserver-xorg-video-intel_2%3a2.9.1-3ubuntu5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-intel ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.9.1-3ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place mark@mark-desktop:~$ ^C mark@mark-desktop:~$ gedit video-reinstall.txt