'doh I shut off my laptop display

[Brian Tillman]

On May 26, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Brian Tillman  
> <mailinglists at briantillman.com> wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:
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>> I've really buggered it up this time, and I have no clue how to  
>> turn my display back on.  I've tried booting into the recovery  
>> mode and using the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but  
>> that didn't work.  Anyone have an answer that doesn't involve  
>> reinstalling 8.04?
>
> Hey Bob,
> Do you get any output on your screen during boot up? If not,  
> sometimes there is a button on the laptop (usually accessed with a  
> function key) for turning off the LCD in lieu of an external display.
>
> Can you see your system boot; and then goes blank when X starts?
>
> Display works fine up until I complete log in, then it goes black.   
> I was messing around with Graphics/Screen GUI and turned off the  
> display.
>
> Bob
>

Boot into rescue mode (or a lower run level, looking to someone with  
more debian / ubuntu specific to chime in with the proper run level /  
grub flags; other distro's its 3) Validate that you do not have  
anything strange in your ~/.xinit.rc; also validate your /etc/X11/ 
xorg.conf. I'm not a ubuntu user myself (eeek!) but this should be no  
different than any other distros.

Brian 
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