El lun, 30-06-2008 a las 15:37 -0500, Bryan Bishop escribió: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > That worked well. Now I'm finding that the old configuration isn't > working either. It's telling me that "ati" is not a valid driver. I've > ran apt-get install xorg-xserver-ati-video successfully, but this > hasn't solved the problem. X is telling me that there are no screens. > How did debian originally configure my screen? Running > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg doesn't even ask me questions > about the screen, and the xorg.conf that it generates sends the fans > into the "screamo mode" and the machine into lockdown. Any more hints?
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