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Hello, I bought a new flatscreen. Changed Horizontal and Vertical refresh in xorg.conf. Made a copy of the original in case of.. Reboot. Now I can't get back in. It hangs at X11. I thought I could 'cp' the old file back to /etc/X11/.. but no reaction; I'm stuck here. I need a way in. Slackware 10.2. Thanks. Gr.F.
By "hangs at X11" you mean...?
If you are at the console (black) screen, try ALT+(F2, F3)...one of them should pop up a console login.
Otherwise, ALT+CTRL+F1 should bring you *back* to the console, where you can try the above.
If not, there's always the cd you installed from, boot into rescue mode, copy the file back there.
In case your computer is booting into runlevel 4 (the KDM or GDM graphical login manager) the way to force a switch to runlevel 3 (plain console) is to do the following when the computer boots:
* When LILO shows the boot menu, press <SHIFT> and then <TAB>
* Type the name of the label you want to boot into (usually this is "linux") followed by a space, followed by the digit "3"; then press enter
* This will cause the computer to boot into console (non-graphical) mode, enabling you to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and testing your changes by running X using the "startx" command... which in case of a "hang" you can always exit through "<CTRL> <ALT> <BackSpace>"
By "hangs at X11" you mean...?
If you are at the console (black) screen, try ALT+(F2, F3)...one of them should pop up a console login.
Otherwise, ALT+CTRL+F1 should bring you *back* to the console, where you can try the above.
If not, there's always the cd you installed from, boot into rescue mode, copy the file back there.
Good luck.
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Hello Wildcat, yes, ALT+F6 gave me the console; so simple. With 'cp' I put the backup in '/etc/X11/' and REBOOT. Thanks.
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