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Messed up monitor settings and no X

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phreak0ut
phreak0ut Original post #1
Mar 27, 2007 at 6:27 PM
Hi!
I was checking out the post of installing beryl on my system. Well, according to the post on wiki, they had just mentioned that 3D acceleration should be ticked. But, I just went to the monitor section and saw that the wrong monitor company was selected, i.e., Sampon or something. I chose Samsung and since my model 55V wasn't available, I selected 55B. Dunno why I did it :oops: but now, I cannot start X. The monitor goes blank and the green light starts blinking. How can I reset the settings to normal? :D

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EDIT: Hey, wait a sec. I remember backing up my xorg.conf. How can I replace it?

I'm almost getting there :D (Grrrr...... opera is crashing on windows when I select quick reply :mad: )
kalpik
kalpik #2
Mar 27, 2007 at 6:30 PM
You can issue sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Where xorg.conf.backup is the name of the backup xorg.conf..
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #3
Mar 27, 2007 at 6:34 PM
The backup file name is this: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S)
desertwind
desertwind #4
Mar 27, 2007 at 6:46 PM
Simple command will do.

sudo cp /path/to/backup/file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

After this restart X.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #5
Mar 27, 2007 at 6:54 PM
I am such a moron! I backed up the file AFTER I had made the changes to SaX2 :( So, still stuck with the screwed up one.

EDIT: trying to backup from xorg.conf~ gives me an error like "cannot stat /etc/................."
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mehulved #6
Mar 27, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Just run xorgconfig again. It should more or less detect everything alright.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #7
Mar 27, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Well, I could have, but I just reinstalled my system. Learnt my lesson the hard way.
M
mehulved #8
Mar 27, 2007 at 10:14 PM
and the wrong way.
phreak0ut
phreak0ut #9
Mar 28, 2007 at 10:15 PM
True :oops:

OK, I've reinstalled the distro. Updated the machine from the repos from here Even updated compiz, beryl and all the works. Now, I've got a different problem. I want to enable compiz and desktop effects, but I get an error message 'x11-video-fglrx' is not available for installation and it asks for Software Update, but when I click OK, it shows that the file is not available for download :( But, I installed this and one more driver according to this site. But, I still can't enable the Desktop effects and I keep the same error message over and over again. What do I do?

Fixed the problem myself. Reinstalled the ATI driver, but this time with the proper distro chosen. This is the third time which I installed the driver. Whew!!