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>