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Old 03-12-2004, 09:52 AM   #1
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Mass Newb Problem with DISPLAY DRIVER


I just dl'd and Installed Fedora with seems pretty cool, but I realized that Just because I know a lot on Windows I dont know anything about this.
After boot I played around for a little bit then dl'd my display drivers for my gfx card and proceeded to get confused. Well I thought I knew what I was doing and ran the file name( I got the info how to do this on nvidia site) And it changed the reselution I could go to. But . I opened display settings and proceeded to change which one it was on ( some generic setting) well as you prolly know when I rebooted its all fuzzy and I cant read anything to set it back to what it was even. So is there a way to boot to safe mode or have it re-acuire the old settings. Thx for any help you can give me.
 
Old 03-12-2004, 09:55 AM   #2
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At the boot prompt there should be a failsafe entry that will let you boot into a rescue mode. Also, if you boot with disk2 (or maybe any of them), you'll get a chance to boot in rescue mode. Now, I know you said you were new to Linux, so you'll need to learn the command line or none of this will make sense and you'll want to revert to your comfort zone (Windows!). Don't let this happen. Learn the command line, it is your friend!
 
Old 03-12-2004, 10:08 AM   #3
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Trust me Im here to stay, But your right my comfort zone is Windows. Im here to learn Linux though and I dont give up easy . Where would be a good guide to learning some of the commands at least enough to be able to get my video back. Its just taken up space on my other hard drive at this point since the display is fugged up.
 
Old 03-15-2004, 01:34 PM   #4
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I had a problem with an unusable display. On another site I learned that control-alt-backspace will get you out of the window manager and back to a visible command line.
At that point you can refer to the instructions on the nVidia site to help you edit the XF86Config file and put the video driver setting back to what it was, presumably Driver "nv"
 
Old 05-09-2006, 07:57 AM   #5
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how can i can i chang the setting of my desplay from command line
 
  


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