Factoids

conf:

  1. timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  2. locales: dpkg-reconfigure locales
  3. keyboard: dpkg-reconfigure console-data
  4. reset x config: rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf*; dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
  5. for UTC setting look into /etc/default/rcS
  6. nvidia-uninstall: nvidia-installer --uninstall; echo libXvMC.so.1 > /etc/X11/XvMCConfig; dpkg --purge nvidia-dkms
  7. fglrx-uninstall: dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '/fglrx|libamdx/{print $2}'); rm -rf /etc/ati
  8. remove persistant udev rules (mb change for example): rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-*