Got it fixed.  Thank You.

On 09/04/2010 11:44 AM, larry price wrote:
> 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.
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