Monitor display has Disappeared

[Dave Marple]

Or while you;re in the out of range, try hitting Ctrl+alt+f5 (ctrl+alt+f7
gets you back to the graphical display) you're now greeted with a command
line.  You can do "sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and make changes from
there.

Good luck,
Elpram

On 9/11/07, Pedro I. Sanchez <psanchez at colcan.biz> wrote:
>
> Tee Jay Rosene wrote:
> > I use Kubuntu 7.04, and I went to "detect monitor" under "Monitor &
> > Display" settings to see if I could get a better resolution. Now that
> > I've rebooted, I am no longer in range and my screen is blank.
> > I can't even see anything to get back to my old setting.
> > Is there a "safe graphics" mode or something? How do I get my display
> back?
> > I won't be able to use my computer again until this problem is fixed.
> > I have never worked with xserver.xorg before. It looks pretty
> overwhelming.
> > Isn't there a way to just revert back to my setup that I had before?
> > Something like a safe graphics mode, so that I can make out what I'm
> > doing and fix the problem graphically?
> >
>
> You could try the following:
>
> 1. Reboot your machine.
>
> 2. Stop at the Linux (Grub) boot menu. If you don't get this menu by
> default (it goes too quick) press the Escape key early as soon as you
> see the first Linux message fly by.
>
> 3. From the menu select the single mode kernel boot. The line says
> something like (Single mode) at the end.
>
> 4. You're now at the root command. Type the following:
>
> # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
> 5. Reboot.
>
> Hopefully your monitor will be back into a working condition.
>
> Good luck,
>
>
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