On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > On Friday I did what I guess would be called a live update to Ubuntu > Lynx. One way or another something did not work out quite right. > When I boot into Ubuntu now, I get three small overlapping screens > that you can barely make out what is on the screen. When I go to a > previous recovery mode, I just end up in a shell and I do not know > enough to try to mess around in the shell. Is there a simple command > for the shell to get to basic monitor settings, or should I download > Lynx on XP, burn the CD, and restart Ubuntu Lynx with the CD?
There are a couple of ways to diagnose and recover from this, some of which depend on knowing what model of video card you are using. If you want to reconfigure the settings of the xserver on ubuntu lynx you should be able to use the command (as root, from the shell) dpkg-reconfigure xorg and it will rerun the scripts that automatically configure the xserver at installation time. This won't necessarily solve the problem, but if the problem is a misconfiguration issue then it will fix it. The other alternative is to start looking through the /etc/X11 directory and restarting the display manager as you change the configuration. You should see one or more dated versions of the xorg.conf configuration file. You can try switching to the previous one and restarting the display manager. you'll want to read the man page for xorg.conf if you want to fiddle with the fine grained configuration. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
