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color=#0000ff size=2>for a low-tech option you might try booting from knoppix to
see what settings will actually work.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=562085120-07012010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I have to admit last time I looked at the ubuntu X configs
I got frustrated. It seems they have moved away from why I might think of
as normal.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=562085120-07012010><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tim
Champion<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:47 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
cialug<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on
Xubuntu<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I'm running Xubuntu on an old HP Omnibook - 1ghz p3 & 128MB or
RAM. Last time I did a distribution upgrade to 9.10, it screwed up my screen
resolution (only can get 800x600 on an LCD that only likes 1024x768), and in
the course of tryig to fix it, I made it worse so now even the external
monitor can't handle the refresh rate I set it to (don't know what it
was)<BR><BR>To further my troubles, this thing won't boot from USB (yes, I
updated the BOIS to the newest version), and the optical drive is pretty much
dead. I have a pxe server that I've been trying to get it to boot from,
but I'm not having much luck there.<BR><BR>What I CAN do is get to the recover
console/menu with network/internet access. I tried the option for "repair
broken packages" - didn't seem to do anything except go update my packages,
which did nothting. can get to a command prompt from here, but I can't find
any way to configure x outside of xwindows. Most of the stuff I'm
finding from google tells me to do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I type
that, and it just brings me back to another prompt with no errors. <BR><BR>I
want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen resolution/refresh
wizard that will let me fix my settings. <BR><BR>Also, I tried editing the
xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is commented out
saying:<BR>Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.<BR><BR>and I
don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to seeing.
Who wants to try and help? <BR><BR>Tim Champion<BR><A
href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">timchampion@gmail.com</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>