Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Jun 2005 19:05, peter gibbons wrote: > >>>Hi There, >>>i run Mandrake on my pc, not the most recent version but v7 or v8. All was >>>going well until my old old monitor finally died. I replaced it with a >>>flat screen monitor and this is where my problem now starts. When i boot >>>up Mndrake everthing looks ok until the desktop tries to load & display and >>>then i get a monitor error which says: Input not Supported. >>> >>>I am totally unable to load up Mandrake in any format what so ever, so i >>>seem to be totally unable to use mandrake with my new monitor. >>> >>>Whats are my options, is there a quick fix that i can do?? Bear in mind >>>that at the moment i cant access my data to back it up. > > > When the lilo splash comes up hit Esc. Type linux 3 and you will boot > without > the gui. Log in as root. Type 'XFdrake' (without quotes) and you will be > able to set your monitor type and resolution (generic flat panel should work > well). > > XFdrake is part of Mandrake Control Center. All the drakes can, as far as I > know, be run from the command line. > > Anne You can also run mcc from the command line, and pick what you want to run. It supports both the CLI and GUI.
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