On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:18 -0500 "Bryan Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all, > > I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found > myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the > laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI > card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a > backup configuration file (an xorg conf program said so) in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080629 or something. The laptop will boot up, all > the way to the startx initiliazation, and then hang, and then the fans > start screaming like crazy and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or (CTRL)+ALT+Fx. > So that's not good. I was trying to CTRL+C and CTRL+X out ouf the > bootup script level when it got to the point when it was just about to > do startx, but this didn't stop gdm from running. At the grub screen, press 'e' and then again after selecting the kernel line. Append 'single' to the parameter list and press Enter then 'b' to boot your system. You should get a line asking for your root password, then a shell prompt. Now you may do whatever you would like to. > Any suggestions for getting the configuration back to the laptop's > liking? And after that I'd like to get the CRT functioning, apparently > adding in new sections into the xorg.conf file wasn't enough to make > it work, and I have, in fact, been running through the majority of the > links that Google has been turning up for me, so maybe I'm missing a > good tutorial on throwing up dual monitors? I was reading off of some > tutorials on xinerama, X11, the one on the gentoo wiki, and the > various tutorials available on the ubuntu forums. > > I'm downloading a livecd so I can go poke my nose into the hdd in the > worse case scenario, but this will take a while, and in the mean time > maybe some debian user can help me out? > > Thank you, > - Bryan > http://heybryan.org/ > > -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
