'doh I shut off my laptop display

[Bob Cortez]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

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> Bob Cortez wrote:
> | On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Brian Tillman
> | <mailinglists at briantillman.com <mailto:mailinglists at briantillman.com>>
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> |     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
> |
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> what about <control> <alt> <f1> can you login to tty1? then run sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


Tried that as well.  Still nothing

Thanks for the help, your effort is appreciated.

Bob
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