With all due respect, how would I go about boot from knoppix? Optical drive is dead, won't boot form USB. Unless I can get my PXE server to serve knoppix, or it has a floppy boot disk, I'm not sure that's possible.<br>
<br clear="all">Tim Champion<br><a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nathan C. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">for a low-tech option you might try booting from knoppix to
see what settings will actually work.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">-Nate</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>] <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></div><div class="h5">
<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" target="_blank">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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