[lug] Wanted: Help with resetting monitor

[Hugh Brown]

Ctrl-Alt-F1

log in and set initdefault to 3 in /etc/inittab

fiddle with the monitor settings in xorg (using startx to test and
Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill) until it works again.

make a backup xorg.conf named xorg.conf.homemonitor or something so that
when/if you get burned again you can put it back.

Hugh

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, siegfried wrote:

> Howdy folks!
> After a great night of hacking in Ft Collins my desktop machine has come
> home to my original monitor. I think my desktop computer had such great time
> cavorting with strange monitors last night that it does not want to work
> peaceably with my original monitor! (You know how wild those hacking society
> parties can get!)
>
> I thought Linux and Windows always started in VGA mode and I would get the
> opportunity to boot in safe mode and then change the monitor settings when I
> am finally booted.
>
> However, this does not appear to be case. I do not get the opportunity see
> anything while booting (except my monitor expressing confusing about digital
> and analog mode). I have a Samsung syncMasterT 213 monitor and last night I
> think I was connected to a Dell.
>
> Now I get some extremely distorted images after booting. I can recognize
> mouse movements. However, the displays are so distorted I cannot figure out
> how to reset the monitor in windows or Linux.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks much!
> Siegfried
>
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