'doh I shut off my laptop display

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Mon, 26 May 2008 20:21:51 -0800, Bob Cortez wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:58 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/26/2008 05:53 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:
>> > 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?
>> >
>> > As always, thanks in advance for your help.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> When you boot into recovery mode, select (I think) the third option to
>> attempt to fix x. When it finishes, then select (I think) the first
>> option to continue to boot normally.
> 
> 
> Tried as well.  No change.
> 
> Your effort is appreciated.  Thank you.
> 
> Bob

As non of the obvious seems to work: your laptop may have function keys 
with which can switch of your internal display when you use an external 
display. Maybe these keys work in Ubuntu. Easy to try.

Aart