black screen after starting gnome

gcoleson · 11-15-2005, 12:48 PM

I just loaded the Debian distribution of Linux and I think I set the screen resolution incorrectly so I just see a black screen after GNOME starts. How do I break out of the startup and get to a command prompt so I can change the resolution to a different one. Or is there an easier way to change the resolution ? Second if I do get to a command prompt how do it change the resolution.

Thanks,
Greg

bosewicht · 11-15-2005, 01:09 PM

ctrl+alt+bcksp will kill X

gcoleson · 11-15-2005, 03:19 PM

that did not seem to work. Any other ideas on how to correct the display resolution issue?

bosewicht · 11-15-2005, 03:27 PM

what do you mean it didn't work? did it kill X? then what you can do is edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if you have xfree or /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you have Xorg