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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. <BR>
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On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:53 -0600, Patrick Green wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Unfortunately he would be flying blind. He can boot up with the cable attached, but he has no video at all from the cable. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Jason Crow <<A HREF="mailto:cjac76@comcast.net">cjac76@comcast.net</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">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.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:07 -0600, Patrick Green wrote:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">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. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">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. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">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?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thank you in advance.</FONT>
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