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 May 8 2008, 04:41 PM
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May 9 2008, 12:49 AM
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 Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
Try this:
After starting up, hit control+alt+F1 to switch to text mode. Log in and issue this command: CODE sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak That will back up the current xorg.cong file to xorg.cong.bak Now type: CODE sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg to reconfigure the xserver. It will ask you some questions about your hardware. If you make a mistake, just rerun the command. Then reboot (sudo reboot). Any better? This post has been edited by Amazing Andrew: May 9 2008, 12:54 AM --------------------  |
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May 9 2008, 08:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 29-November 07 Member No.: 173,479 |
Thanks Andrew. Don't know why this happened in the first place, but that did the trick. Up and running again!
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May 9 2008, 01:03 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
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May 9 2008, 11:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 39 Joined: 7-July 06 Member No.: 75,020 |
Not a newb, but I have occasionally run into an xserver crash due to adding an LCD monitor with different refresh rates than a CRT that was used during original install.
Just curious...why are standard LCD refresh rates and resolutions not included in the xorg configuration of most distros as a default protection against this problem. I notice that several resolutions in my xorg are listed. Why not all the others that a user is likely to encounter? Thanks |
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May 10 2008, 10:28 PM
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 Bleeping Diesel Addicted Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,606 Joined: 23-January 06 From: SW VA USA Member No.: 51,954 |
I believe that the Resolutions available are set by the video driver in most cases, as for the refresh rates if you reconfigure X (from a shell) like Amazing Andrew showed above it should detect your Monitor Settings if you switch monitors, also some older monitors didnt support auto-detection (its an extra wire going to a formerly unused pin on the VGA connector) and that can wreck havoc when attempting to configure X. (Nothing like setting the Resolution and Refresh manually, fun fun fun).
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May 19 2008, 06:30 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 10-April 06 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 63,555 |
LCD screens are great, light weight and all.....The one gripe I have with
both my LG 19" and a new Acer 19" is "Why the heck didn't they least make the brightness and contrast controls easier to adjust..I have trouble doing that with either one..a real pain if you ask me...seems that should be the easiest thing in the world to do. Sounds like that was a negative thing to say....but for me it's the truth and I'm sticking to it. 
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May 19 2008, 02:17 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
Changing the brightness on my LCD is not hard. It's also an Acer 19 inch...
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May 19 2008, 03:47 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 10-April 06 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 63,555 |
QUOTE(Amazing Andrew @ May 19 2008, 03:17 PM)  Changing the brightness on my LCD is not hard. It's also an Acer 19 inch... And? How did you do it? |
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May 19 2008, 07:06 PM
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Bleeping Diesel Addicted Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,606 Joined: 23-January 06 From: SW VA USA Member No.: 51,954 |
through the user menu on the monitor. Same as my Dell and KDS montiors do
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May 19 2008, 07:26 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
QUOTE(BlackSpyder @ May 19 2008, 05:06 PM) through the user menu on the monitor. Same as my Dell and KDS montiors do What he said! -------------------- |
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May 19 2008, 09:27 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 10-April 06 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 63,555 |
Thanks guys, I have the ACER monitor brightness and contrast
to my liking.....I put in the CD that came with it and downloaded Display Management and was able to change everything from there. We also had a power "burp" here about the same time I was making the changes. I tried that yesterday but when I changed anything a prompt came up telling me I wasn't in compliance with the factory settings.....so when I tried to leave, everything was back to where it was originally....Now, though I have it. Many thanks again. |
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