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04-01-2005, 03:13 AM
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Registered: Nov 2004
Location: knoxville tn
Distribution: Mandrake
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monitor problem
I was having trouble with my monitor on my laptop. (dell inspirion 1000)
I changed the monitor resolution and now the screen is unreadable.
So, when I boot into Mandrake 10.1 the screen is so distorted that I cannot do anything.
I was wanting to know if there is some way I can boot up with the command line and change the screen resolution.
I don't want to reload because I had so much trouble configuring my wireless.
Thanks Charlie
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04-01-2005, 03:39 AM
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Ctrl-Alt-F1 should take you to a console that will be unaffected by the Xorg resolution. Login there, change the xorg.conf file, and restart Xorg
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04-01-2005, 04:35 AM
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Thanks will give it a try !!!
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04-01-2005, 04:44 AM
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Ok, I was able to get a command line.
DO you know where the Xorg.config file is located and what program can I use to edit it ?
I'm a newbie so you'll have to excuse me...
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04-01-2005, 04:49 AM
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I'd probably go with:
nano /etc/xorg.conf
As the likely place for the conf file and the easiest text editor. . .
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04-01-2005, 05:05 AM
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Getting a lot closer.
Found the xorg.conf file in the /etc/x11 folder
Nano the editor doesn't work. I tried EMACS but I don't know how to get around in that. Do you know any other editors ?
Thanks
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04-01-2005, 05:23 AM
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pico?
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04-01-2005, 06:57 AM
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Location: knoxville tn
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Well I was having no luck with finding an editor that would work.
The only two I could find were emacs and vi.
I went into the directory as root and found a file xorg.conf.old and renamed it to xorg.conf.
Anyway, it worked.
Thanks for the info on what file to edit and how to get a command line session....
Thanks again for the help.............
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