Black screen at start from own stupidity
 

Hey everyone. I'm going to ask a favour of all of you. Please don't make fun of me too much when I tell you this

I haven't been using linux for that long, although I should have known better. I went into the moniter configuration and decided to change the moniter driver to my moniter. Well I couldn't find one that was exactly the same so I picked one that was close...

With that said, my display goes to sleep now when I start up into linux. I just need to know a way to change the moniter configuration without being able to get into linux. Thank you

You don't even get any terminal prompts?

I can get into terminal, I get the terminal prompts. But I don't know them well enough to know what to do with them. I all the way to the part where you would usually log in, and then my screen goes to sleep

Log in using your root password.

rm /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

mv /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.old /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

This should restore your previous XF86Config-4 and you ought to be able to run X. Reboot and try it.

Thanks, that worked.

You might want to install Midnight Commander and VIM. It makes it really easy to work the CLI. Enjoy.