[Ubuntu Chicago] Studebnt video issue

[Jason Crow]

I would suggest booting with the TV on and then going to system -
administration - screens and graphics. He could then change the default
screen there.


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:07 -0600, Patrick Green wrote:

> One of my students, who I am proud to say is using Ubuntu, kinda made
> a mistake.  He was experimenting with the video cable to get his
> computer to either run on the tv or to get the computer to play tv...I
> am not sure which. 
> 
> Anyway, using the s video cable he hooked the laptop to the tv and
> changed the setting through the GNOME GUI to accept the tv as the main
> monitor.  Now, the screen is blank and only boots when the video cable
> is hooked up to his laptop.  
> 
> He is on another student's laptop downloading and burning a copy of
> ubuntu so he can run it live.  Once he gets in, I have NO CLUE what to
> tell him to enter to change the monitor video settings back to the
> laptop screen...thoughts?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
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