[Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

[Nathan C. Smith]

for a low-tech option you might try booting from knoppix to see what settings will actually work.

I have to admit last time I looked at the ubuntu X configs I got frustrated.  It seems they have moved away from why I might think of as normal.

-Nate

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Tim Champion
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:47 PM
To: cialug
Subject: [Cialug] fix resolution and refresh on Xubuntu

I'm running Xubuntu on an old HP Omnibook - 1ghz p3 & 128MB or RAM. Last time I did a distribution upgrade to 9.10, it screwed up my screen resolution (only can get 800x600 on an LCD that only likes 1024x768), and in the course of tryig to fix it, I made it worse so now even the external monitor can't handle the refresh rate I set it to (don't know what it was)

To further my troubles, this thing won't boot from USB (yes, I updated the BOIS to the newest version), and the optical drive is pretty much dead.  I have a pxe server that I've been trying to get it to boot from, but I'm not having much luck there.

What I CAN do is get to the recover console/menu with network/internet access. I tried the option for "repair broken packages" - didn't seem to do anything except go update my packages, which did nothting. can get to a command prompt from here, but I can't find any way to configure x outside of xwindows.  Most of the stuff I'm finding from google tells me to do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I type that, and it just brings me back to another prompt with no errors.

I want to know how to do is go through some kind of screen resolution/refresh wizard that will let me fix my settings.

Also, I tried editing the xorg.conf manually, but most of the stuff is commented out saying:
Commented out by update-manager, HAL is used now.

and I don't see any screen resolutions listed there like I'm used to seeing.  Who wants to try and help?

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com<mailto:timchampion at gmail.com>
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