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Pozican

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 5:01am

I screwed up. Reset default video setting via shell

shell, that is like command line right? :oops: I'm new to linux.


Alright so I'm running SuSE 9.1 Personal with KDE 3.2.

I messed with the stupid video settings and now when it tries to load the GUI all I see is horizontal lines.

I need to reset defaults.
So how can I do that via the shell?

Thanks,
Poz

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 5:57am

Re: I screwed up. Reset default video setting via shell

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shell, that is like command line right? :oops: I'm new to linux.


Alright so I'm running SuSE 9.1 Personal with KDE 3.2.

I messed with the stupid video settings and now when it tries to load the GUI all I see is horizontal lines.

I need to reset defaults.
So how can I do that via the shell?

Thanks,
Poz

The configuration tool of SuSE is called yast2 and it works on the command line, too. This is handy in cases like yours where the chosen graphical desktop does not work.

So, just start yast2 and reconfigure your graphics hardware.
In case you do know how to get to a console: Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches you to the first one.

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 6:00am

I can't login.... and I can't see.

so opening ctrl+alt+f1 would be pointless....

But thank you very much
I'll start YaST up in command line (er... w/e)

:lol:


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Monday, September 6th 2004, 6:10am

YAY! It worked from command line!

Thank you SO very much! :D

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 6:32am

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I can't login.... and I can't see.

so opening ctrl+alt+f1 would be pointless....

You don't have to log in and you don't have to see anything in order to press ctrl+alt+f1. This key combo switches you to a (non-X) console (where you should be able to see again).

But I see from your other comment that you already solved the problem. Good to hear :-)