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. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
