On Wednesday, December 04, 2002 at 3:33 PM Francesco wrote;

Hello everyone, I have joined the list not long ago. My name is Francesco, foreign student here in the UK. I am a Linux newbie I must say, and I am desperately trying to do away with M$... I had Woody installed until a few days back on my second HDD and reinstalled it today after some serious hardware problems(all was working fine anyway until then). I have made a mistake during installation at basically "monitor setup" stage so now when the X server starts (at the login screen) nothing is displayed and the monitor goes blind just giving some frequency values and a NOT SUPPORTED message (I figured the selected resolution and frequency match cannot be handled my thge stupid monitor..). Do you know if that can be fixed without having to reinstall the whole system again? Many thanks for ANY help/opinions.

You can shutdown X11 with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, which might work, but I doubt it! :o)

X11 cycles through the different resolutions available if you press Ctrl+Alt+Plus (forwards) or +Minus (backwards), which may also be worth a try.

If that doesn't work try boot from your CD to single user mode and running XF86Setup.

Failing that you need to edit your X11 config file, which will be something like /etc/X11/XftConfig. Somewhere in there will be a section for your monitor specifying the different resolutions available. You should be able to determine what needs to be amended by inspection.

To edit the file, try booting from your install CD into single user mode and then mounting the root partition from the command line. I'm afraid you'll then need to use something like 'vi' to edit the file.

Regards,

Keith ____________ The more you wonder why it's so, the more it keeps on happening.