<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hm, maybe he changed a monitor setting via the GUI, which would have modified his xorg.conf file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Seeing at that file controls the configuration of the X display, that is where I would start.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What he can try is to use the Live CD to mount his root partition, and then enter "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" into a terminal session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This will take him through a video display configuration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He would need to know what graphics chip (nvidia, intel, etc) is installed in his laptop prior to doing this so he can select the right graphics driver, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He can use the Live CD to research the laptop specs on the internet if necessary.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Encourage him to make a backup of this file once he gets it working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If he messes with his video settings and things get goofed up again, he can just copy the working version over the nonworking version.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jim</span></p><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrick Green</b> <<a href="mailto:patlgreen@gmail.com">patlgreen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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?<br>
<br>Thank you in advance.<br><br>--<br>Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
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