Changed screen res- now out of range.
Okay, I've gone and done it. At 3am, bored and curious, I changed the screen resolution to try and get a crisper look at things. Now when I boot the screen goes "out of range"
The back-story is I've never quite liked the rewsolution I've had from which to choose. I have Mandrake 10.0 Official. Dual-booting w/ WinXP. When I installed Mandrake my monitor was not listed so I had to choose what appeared to be the closest one (f-series) I have a HP Pavilion f50 monitor. I can't exactly remember which one I chose but it was also f-series. For graphics I have S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR. I have searched silar problems but no solution helped me. I'm booting with GRUB. So far I have tried: At boot-esc. nothing At boot-c(for command line) xf86config command unrecognized At boot-c xorgconfig command not recognized I'm unable to see anything after watching the boot proccess in verbose mode(everthingseems normal there) but when I should start seeing GNOME I get the "out of range" message. So I need to be able to fix this blind so to speak. I have a live Knoppix CD, I know people have used this to recover files but could it also be used to change my settings? Hmm, I'll try that in the meentime. TIA, carpetguy. |
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I've tried my Knoppix disk and think there may be a way to do it if I could find where the setting are located. I'm able to navigate through all my partitions and directories. Does anyone know where the settings are stored? carpetguy |
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CTRL + ALT + (- on numpad) when you think you are in gnome and that probably get a viewable display again or the best way choose failsafe from the lilo boot menu and type this at the command line root@localhost# vi /etc/X11/XF86config-4 or if VTY 1 works use that as root and type root@localhost# init 3 to edit the file root@localhost# vi /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and change 1024x800 to something more reasonable 800 x 600 is the safest look or this Quote:
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press i to insert text in vi press ESC then type ZZ (two capital Z and enter to sagve the file) |
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I now have 2 instances of /etc/x11/XF86config (one mark old). Is this normal or did I infact complete writing the file? Hmmm, another thing to discover. I really love this, warts and all. lol. I don't prefer the way I did it. I want to be able to fix issues(and I do have a couple more issues) without having to re-install. That is a Windows trick I'd rather not employ. I have a machine on the side I will be using for testing, on that I will try and duplicate this problem so I can use your last suggestions. I need to do much more reading into shells and such. Thank you very much for your help, I wish I could say it alone solved my problem but alas, I'm a hard learner. I plan to learn Linux inside and out as I do not plan to go back to my Win partition. I'm transferring all data from there to here using Mandrake and changing permmisions as I go. Now to work on my other troubles, mostly sound related and startup services and, hopefully, not need to ask advice. Thanks again and thank you to the whole community for being here. carpetguy. |
yea X is annoying because each distro uses a different file to store the screen settings
in mandrake there in XF86config-4 XF86config Xorg.conf. /etc/ has everything you will want to learn fstab (location of you partitions Quote:
/etc/bashrc (stored task run during boot from what i have gathers Autoexec.bat of linux ) |
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