[Ubuntu Chicago] Studebnt video issue

[Jason Crow]

Will safe mode boot up to the monitor? If he can get a screen, he can
edit the xorg config file. I thought that gusty had something called
bulletproof x that gave you a gui for this. 


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:53 -0600, Patrick Green wrote:

> Unfortunately he would be flying blind.  He can boot up with the cable
> attached, but he has no video at all from the cable. 
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Jason Crow <cjac76 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
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>         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.
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>         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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