[sf-lug] More Self inflicted Display Issues

[Blake Haggerty]

>What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log look like? Might be some clue as to what's 
>going wrong...

 

I will try and paste this onto the list this evening. Is there another way to look into and edit this file besides nano? All Nano does is produce a blank file even for files I knwo there is info in. 






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-----Original Message-----
From:Tom Haddon tom at greenleaftech.net 
To: "Blake Haggerty" ;
Cc: "sf-lug at linuxmafia.com" ;
Sent: May 8, 2008 09:22:02 AM
Subject: Re: [sf-lug] More Self inflicted Display Issues

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:07 -0400, Blake Haggerty wrote: 
> Hey all, 
> 
> Hoping someone will have a simple fix for this. 
> 
> This problem is on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 W/ Nividia 8500GT 
> 
> I was messing with the screen resolutions in my xorg.conf and I 
> changed some of the values and like an idiot I didnt back it up. Now 
> when I boot I cant see my desktop. 
> 
> I tried to edit my xorg.conf (sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf) the file 
> is empty as in it is a blank page that nano pulls up (this has always 
> been a problem for me with nano no matter what file I try to edit) 

There may well be other files in this directory that may be of use - I 
know that every time you invoke the magic dpkg-reconfigure command it 
backs up the old one, so take a look in /etc/X11 and see if there's 
anything in there dated sometime that looks useful. 

> 
> I tried the sudo dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh xorg.conf (not 
> sure if that is the correct syntax I usually am going off a cheat 
> sheet) That brought a screen to choose the correct resolutions and I 
> did so and still no go. 

I would try starting with the basic driver (vesa) and see if you can get 
it working on that. It's possible that at the same time/related your 
nvidia module (which I'm assuming you're using) got hosed. If so, trying 
another driver (such as vesa or nv) might at least get you to a GUI so 
you can move from there. 

What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log look like? Might be some clue as to what's 
going wrong... 

Cheers, Tom 

> 
> Now here is the really strange part. 
> 
> I have a Belkein KVM switch that I use to switch between my two 
> computers sharing one monitor. When I switch over to my puppy Linux 
> Box and start working on that everything is good. If I switch over to 
> the non working Ubuntu box I can briefly see the login screen. I then 
> blindly enter my login and password. I will then switch back to the 
> puppy machine and then switch back to non working Ubuntu machine and I 
> can briefly see my desktop for just a flash. So its there and its 
> running but it just wont display on the monitor. 
> 
> Thank you for any help you can lend in advance! 
> 
> 
> Blake Haggerty 
> Permanent Placement Specialist 
> 
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> 415-788-8488 x6062 
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> 415-788-2592 
> 
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