Ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic monitor change

[lazer1]

well I have found what xorg.conf should be but cannot instate it!

by "trying Ubuntu without changes" that has xorg.conf 

for the monitor,

the ModelName field is "PHILIPS 150"

VendorName is "Monitor Vendor"

DisplaySize is 300   230

HorizSync is 30.0 - 61.0
VertRefresh is 56.0 - 75.0
Option is "dpms"

but trying Ubuntu without changes doesnt allow me to read or write any

files.

this is a real catch 22 situation.


and the Grub shell doesnt allow me to access the drives properly.

They really should have a safe graphics boot option to deal with such
problems,


why isnt there a boot command line option for safe graphics?

HOW does the "try Ubuntu without changes" safe graphics option work?




On 29-Apr-10, NoOp wrote:
>On 04/28/2010 02:40 PM, lazer1 wrote:
>> 
>> ok, I tried the suggestion and there is no such file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> 
>> I then tried startx but that leads to nothing displayed except a few lines
>> 
>> of trashed video at the top.

>Please bottom post on this list - thanks :-)

>Then it sounds as if you may need to create an xorg.conf for that
>particular monitor with the proper Horizsync and Vertrefresh options for
>that monitor. Example:

>Section "Monitor"
>Identifier"Monitor0"
>Vendorname"Dell"
>Modelname"Dell E172FP"
>Horizsync31.0-80.0
>Vertrefresh56.0-76.0

>Problem is that without an exact specific model I can't tell you what
>they are. For example, I just finished with a customer using the above
>monitor & I was able to determine the freq's from:
>http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/e172fp/En/specs.htm
>But searching for generic 'Philips 150S' on the Philips site I find many
>different models. Only other thing I can suggest is having a look at:

><http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=ubuntu+%2B"Philips+150S"&btnG=Search>
>and see if you can find a solution. Maybe the settings shown in:
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=131868
>will work.

>That said, you should at least get _something_, when you start up (you
>have tried rebooting?) Your problem is looking more like a video driver
>issue as 9.10 should at least try to bring up the monitor even if it
>doesn't know what it is. If all else fails, you can try putting this
>into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot:

>Section "Device"
>Identifier"Configured Video Device"
>Driver"vesa"
>EndSection

>Section "Monitor"
>Identifier"Configured Monitor"
>EndSection

>Section "Screen"
>Identifier"Default Screen"
>Monitor"Configured Monitor"
>Device"Configured Video Device"
>EndSection

>It will also help to know what type of system (hardware) & graphic card.
>And just what happened and/or what you've done other than simply connect
>a different monitor to the system. Also, what was the 'widescreen
>monitor' that malfunctioned & details around that event.






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