[Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

[Tim Champion]

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.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>wrote:

>  for a low-tech option you might try booting from knoppix to see what
> settings will actually work.
>
> 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.
>
> -Nate
>
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> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Tim Champion
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:47 PM
> *To:* cialug
> *Subject:* [Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen
> resolution/refresh wizard that will let me fix my settings.
>
> Also, I tried editing the xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is
> commented out saying:
> Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.
>
> and I don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to
> seeing.  Who wants to try and help?
>
> Tim Champion
> timchampion at gmail.com
>
>
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