I'm new to Linux, so bear with me. I'm still learning....

I'm using Fedora Core 2..

I have mistakenly changed the video resolution of my screen that the laptop does not even display anything when X loads up. So, I go to the rescue mode and end up in the shell. I don't know in what directory is this information saved so I can change it. I want to go from 1280x1024 resolution back to 1024x768. I'm reckoning it's under the /../etc directory (given the .. is my mounted system directory).

Am I approaching this right?
Help me.
Thanks.

Look at /etc/X11/
and the file you are looking for is xorgconfig or something like this.

Sorry I wasn't clear, but how do you edit the file? What's the command to go into the text editor? (I don't know the name of the text editor).

emacs filename

edit it

save it: CTRL-x CTRL-s
close it: CTRL-x CTRL-c

Exactly. I recalled emacs, and luckily it was what I needed. Thanks.

It did it. Worked like a charm.

The file was under /etc/X11, called xorg.conf.


Thanks a lot.