Screen Resolution Re:Wine Freezes

[Neil]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/07/2008 11:03 AM, Willis Taylor wrote:
>  > I very foolishly said ok, I'll use the GUI to reset the screen
>  > resolution when I saw the answer to my question on wine failure.  I
>  > closed the mail program and switched computers but in the GUI I am only
>  > offered 640x480 and 800x600.  Before I installed the wine my resolution
>  > was 1024x768 so that does seem like the problem.  having deleted the
>  > emails and emptied the trash and being a newbie I am unable to recall
>  > the command line to set my resolution.
>  >
>  > Help!
>  >
>
>  Assuming that you are using Gutsy Gnome:
>
>  System|Administration|Screens and Graphics
>
>  You _may_ be able to reset from there. If not, then you can try (from a
>  terminal) sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. And if that doesn't
>  work, go into /etc/X11/ and use your previous working xorg.conf.
>

The command must be ran from console, wich you get with "CTRL-ALT-F2"
To get back to your normal GUI "CTRL-ALT-F7" will help. Or you could
start a terminal by clicking System|Administration|Terminal (or
Console, not sure).
Once there you should enter "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg".
If this fails you can do the folowing:
You cannot change your xorg.conf manually from the GUI, since you
should be root to do so. If you already exited it, get back to the dos
style interface.
Type the following commands:
su
to go into root
<your root password>
cd /etc/X11                                                      to go
to the right folder
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup01                       to backup your
current xorg.conf. You should always do this. You can still see things
in the GUI, so this isn't all bad
ls -l
list all files in this folde, long style (with permissions, dates and
some explanations

look at the dates. There still is a xorg.conf file. This is probably
faulty. There is a xorg.conf.backup.01 file, you just created it.
However there should be another xorg.conf.somethinghere file. This is
the file you need.

cp xorg.conf.somethinghere xorg.conf                copy the older
backup to xorg.conf
su <your username>                                        go back to
your username. You could also close your terminal (or console). As a
normal user you can't do as much wrong.

he said he was a newby, so I do not assume he can use commands like an
experienced *nix user


Neil

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