On Tuesday 16 May 2006 14:49, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:34 +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
How can I edit xorg.conf from the command line? Kind regard- Nick Daniels
Lets not let this become a text editor flame war, but you should be able to do something like this:
$ su # nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf [here replace 'nano' for your fav editor [i.e. emacs ;-)
then look for something like: Section "Device" Identifier "Display Adpater Description" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection
and change the "nv" for "vesa" (I don't have an NVidia card so there may be lots of other options in this Device section; try commenting them out with #'s before deleting them!)
Save and exit: Ctrl+O; ENTER; Ctrl+X
then restart X:
# /etc/init.d/gdm restart [this works for me on Debian
[ you could also press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at the X login
Hi Richard I now have "screens" on Kubuntu 64, :) many thanks indeed. Seven years using Linux only, and never edited a file from command line! Best Regards-Nick Daniels