[Ubuntu Chicago] Studebnt video issue

[Jim Campbell]

Bulletproof X is more working for Hardy.  I don't think that they had it
ready for Gutsy.

I've messed up my xorg.conf file in Hardy, and it will boot into a kind of
safe-mode with limited graphics.  Not so with Gutsy.


On 2/14/08, Jason Crow <cjac76 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:53 -0600, Patrick Green wrote:
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> Unfortunately he would be flying blind.  He can boot up with the cable
> attached, but he has no video at all from the cable.
>
> 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:
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> 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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