Thanks for these suggestions. It is working now! I booted from CD with a 8.04 distro, then renamed xorg.conf to something else, because I saw that there was a xorg.conf.1 that had "default" settings in it. So my computer is functioning as it was before. Now to get dual screen mode working...
Regards Roger Zimmerman www.electrical-engineering-services.com On Jan 10, 6:15 am, Icebreaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Newer X11 servers can work guess the settings without Xorg.conf, so just try > to move your existing xorg.conf to xorg.back, and reboot. > > If you can login normally using the GUI, you can start experimenting again. > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I tried to set up a dual monitor on my system. I went into system > > settings to the monitor setting, and set it so the second screen was a > > clone of the first. It said a reboot was needed. After I reboot, the > > Kubuntu screen would start up then the screen would go blurry and > > blank then the Linux OS text would come on and freeze up. I tried > > Ctrl-Alt-F4 and it went into terminal type of start up mode for linux. > > I logged in and got to a screen where I could do an "ls" and see the > > directory, but the monitor kept clicking and going black, it was tough > > to do anything. Not that I knew what to fix, but I heard to fix > > xorg.conf. > > > How can I go back to my old settings when I can't see the screen in > > Kubuntu and terminal is "flaky" to run? > > > Note, after I changed the setting for "clone" and started the reboot, > > I could see the same start up activity on both the second and first > > monitors at the same time. > > > I have KDE 3.5 and Ubuntu 8.04, one monitor is a Dell and one an LG. > > I also tried with only one monitor turned on at a time, with no change > > in the problem. > > > Any advise / comments appreciated > > > Roger > > > Roger Zimmerman > > -- > > Steve Martin - "I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
