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I have a system that I recently install Nvidia drivers for and now X is booting into a resolution that the monitor does not support, what file dictates this resolution so I can scale it back to get into the system. I still have acess to runtime 3 so I will be able to do modifications.
If you recently installed the Nvidia driver, you probably downloaded the 8xxx series. Many people are having problems using this driver. On two of my machines, it won't even start X because it misreads the pixel clock frequency.
I suggest you download the 7676 driver, which appears to be the most stable. Uninstall the previous driver (with the '--uninstall' option) and then run the 7676 installer.
If you recently installed the Nvidia driver, you probably downloaded the 8xxx series. Many people are having problems using this driver. On two of my machines, it won't even start X because it misreads the pixel clock frequency.
I suggest you download the 7676 driver, which appears to be the most stable. Uninstall the previous driver (with the '--uninstall' option) and then run the 7676 installer.
OK, I will switch back, but really this is not the 8xxx driver because it was working perfectly fine until I accidently tried to push a resolution and refresh rate the monitor is not capable of doing. In order for me to switch back though I am going to need to be able to get into X windows to download it because I don't have any browsers that are command line capable. Do you happen to know the file where I can manually edit the resolution and refresh rate?
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