[sf-lug] More Self inflicted Display Issues

Thu May 8 11:23:18 PDT 2008

Nano has worked for me on every file I have ever tried.  I use
debian/ubuntu mainly, but also rhel/fedora, and gentoo...

On 8 May 2008 14:10:59 -0400, Blake Haggerty
<Blake.Haggerty at sapphire.com> wrote:
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>>Are you actually getting a crash error and defaulting to CLI, or is it just
>> blank?  I'm assuming that it's just blank.
>>If you try to switch to one of the other terminals is it still black or do
>> you get a login prompt?
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> It is just a blank screen no CLI. Monitor Flashes "No Signal" I imagine
> there is an issue with the switch too due getting flashes of the login and
> desktop when switching back and forth. The strange thing is though it worked
> great until I edited the xorg.conf file.
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>>I would suspect that the file name was entered incorrect.  I've never run
>> into an occasion where less/more/cat showed data in >a file and nano/ee/vi
>> didn't.
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> nano has never worked for me on any file I have ever tried it with. I have
> read about this issue but never found a fix.
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>>I have created similar problems for myself with Mandriva and found the
>>simplest was to correct was to use the install DVD in Upgrade mode to
>> correct
>>my error.
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> Unfortunately I dont have a DVD or CD drive yet ont his computer I switched
> motherboards and I dont have a SATA dvd or cd drives. (which is required)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:Ernest De Leon edeleonjr at gmail.com
> To: "bobbie sellers" ;
> Cc: "Blake Haggerty" , "sf-lug at linuxmafia.com" ;
> Sent: May 8, 2008 10:45:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] More Self inflicted Display Issues
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> Are you actually getting a crash error and defaulting to CLI, or is it just
> blank?  I'm assuming that it's just blank.
>
> If you try to switch to one of the other terminals is it still black or do
> you get a login prompt?
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> If you are getting pitch black no matter what, it's probably a hardware
> issue with your cabling or KVM, if you get to a CLI prompt, then it's
> definitely the xserver.
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> I would to the following (again in your case)
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> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and choose the generic vesa driver....see if
> you can at least get some kind of GUI up.
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> afterward, you can do less/more/cat to check your xorg.conf and make sure
> there is data in there.  If you are using nano and not seeing anything in
> the file, that would be truly odd.  I would suspect that the file name was
> entered incorrect.  I've never run into an occassion where less/more/cat
> showed data in a file and nano/ee/vi didn't.
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> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:26 AM, bobbie sellers <bliss at california.com>
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> Blake Haggerty wrote:
>> Hey all,
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>> Hoping someone will have a simple fix for this.
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>> This problem is on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 W/ Nividia 8500GT
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> 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.
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>> Now here is the really strange part.
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>> 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.
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>> Thank you for any help you can lend in advance!
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>        I have created similar problems for myself with Mandriva and found
> the
> simplest was to correct was to use the install DVD in Upgrade mode to
> correct
> my error.
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>        Try to use a tool like Knoppix to back up your /home in case you make
> the
> mistake I did a month or so back and accidently re-install the whole system.
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>> Blake Haggerty
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