On Tuesday 23 December 2003 09:18, Joshua Sain wrote:
I recently switched monitors because my "good" monitor fried itself. I sort of downgraded to a backup. The resolution that I had set on my "good" monitor isn't supported by my old monitor and I had no way of changing the resolution. How can I run the configurator in NON GUI to fix this? I don't know how to get to a command line... :-\ My fedora goes to a GUI login. What do I do to get a command line and how do I fix my resolution?
Do : ctrl-alt- F1 oor F2 to switch to a text console .
Login and either run: redhat-config-xfree86 to create a new XF86Config
or : vi /etc/X11/XF86Config , search the monitor section and change resolution (Do this only if you know the h/v sync values for your monitor.
Alternatively: at bootprompt: init=/bin/bash
will drop you to a single user root shell from which you can edit the XF86Config
hope this helps,
Dirk