[Ubuntu Chicago] Studebnt video issue

[Robert Stolorz]

This happened to me. When booting up the GRUB press escape. Choose the 
recovery mode.

When it is finished booting up type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"

Go through installing his video drivers and he should be fine.

Chad Sutton wrote:
> If its an nvidia card you can use the nvidia-xconfig command line to
> create a new xorg.conf file. Additionally, you might want to look in
> the /etc/X11 directory for earlier versions of the xorg.conf. This
> will only work if the binary Nvidia driver is used and not the open
> driver.
>
> One thing that I do on all my systems is back up my known working
> xorg.conf to xorg.conf.working. That way if I borke it up I can
> recover it quickly with the .working version.
>
> What type of video card is it? I didn't see that anywhere in the thread?
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:47 AM, William Scott Lockwood III
> <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
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>> Reconfigure X.
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Patrick Green <patlgreen at gmail.com>
>>  To: ChicagoTeam <ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com>, The WFTL LUG
>>  <wftl-lug at salmar.com>
>>  Subject: [Ubuntu Chicago] Studebnt video issue
>>  Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:07:39 -0600
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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.
>>  --
>>  William Scott Lockwood III <scott at guppylog.com>
>>  LRSE Hosting
>>
>>
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