Silly mistake in X config renders screen useless
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From: Bryan Bishop on 30 Jun 2008 15:20 Hey all, I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a backup configuration file (an xorg conf program said so) in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080629 or something. The laptop will boot up, all the way to the startx initiliazation, and then hang, and then the fans start screaming like crazy and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or (CTRL)+ALT+Fx. So that's not good. I was trying to CTRL+C and CTRL+X out ouf the bootup script level when it got to the point when it was just about to do startx, but this didn't stop gdm from running. Any suggestions for getting the configuration back to the laptop's liking? And after that I'd like to get the CRT functioning, apparently adding in new sections into the xorg.conf file wasn't enough to make it work, and I have, in fact, been running through the majority of the links that Google has been turning up for me, so maybe I'm missing a good tutorial on throwing up dual monitors? I was reading off of some tutorials on xinerama, X11, the one on the gentoo wiki, and the various tutorials available on the ubuntu forums. I'm downloading a livecd so I can go poke my nose into the hdd in the worse case scenario, but this will take a while, and in the mean time maybe some debian user can help me out? Thank you, - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Nyizsnyik Ferenc on 30 Jun 2008 15:40 On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:18 -0500 "Bryan Bishop" <kanzure(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found > myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the > laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI > card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a > backup configuration file (an xorg conf program said so) in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080629 or something. The laptop will boot up, all > the way to the startx initiliazation, and then hang, and then the fans > start screaming like crazy and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or (CTRL)+ALT+Fx. > So that's not good. I was trying to CTRL+C and CTRL+X out ouf the > bootup script level when it got to the point when it was just about to > do startx, but this didn't stop gdm from running. At the grub screen, press 'e' and then again after selecting the kernel line. Append 'single' to the parameter list and press Enter then 'b' to boot your system. You should get a line asking for your root password, then a shell prompt. Now you may do whatever you would like to. > Any suggestions for getting the configuration back to the laptop's > liking? And after that I'd like to get the CRT functioning, apparently > adding in new sections into the xorg.conf file wasn't enough to make > it work, and I have, in fact, been running through the majority of the > links that Google has been turning up for me, so maybe I'm missing a > good tutorial on throwing up dual monitors? I was reading off of some > tutorials on xinerama, X11, the one on the gentoo wiki, and the > various tutorials available on the ubuntu forums. > > I'm downloading a livecd so I can go poke my nose into the hdd in the > worse case scenario, but this will take a while, and in the mean time > maybe some debian user can help me out? > > Thank you, > - Bryan > http://heybryan.org/ > > -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Bryan Bishop on 30 Jun 2008 16:40 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:18 -0500 > "Bryan Bishop" <kanzure(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found > > myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the > > laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI > > card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a > > backup configuration file (an xorg conf program said so) in > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080629 or something. The laptop will boot up, all > > the way to the startx initiliazation, and then hang, and then the fans > > start screaming like crazy and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or (CTRL)+ALT+Fx. > > So that's not good. I was trying to CTRL+C and CTRL+X out ouf the > > bootup script level when it got to the point when it was just about to > > do startx, but this didn't stop gdm from running. > > At the grub screen, press 'e' and then again after selecting the kernel > line. Append 'single' to the parameter list and press Enter then 'b' to > boot your system. You should get a line asking for your root password, > then a shell prompt. Now you may do whatever you would like to. That worked well. Now I'm finding that the old configuration isn't working either. It's telling me that "ati" is not a valid driver. I've ran apt-get install xorg-xserver-ati-video successfully, but this hasn't solved the problem. X is telling me that there are no screens. How did debian originally configure my screen? Running dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg doesn't even ask me questions about the screen, and the xorg.conf that it generates sends the fans into the "screamo mode" and the machine into lockdown. Any more hints? - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Mumia W.. on 1 Jul 2008 00:30 On 06/30/2008 03:37 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > [...] > Now I'm finding that the old configuration isn't > working either. It's telling me that "ati" is not a valid driver. I've > ran apt-get install xorg-xserver-ati-video successfully, but this > hasn't solved the problem. X is telling me that there are no screens. > How did debian originally configure my screen? Running > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg doesn't even ask me questions > about the screen, and the xorg.conf that it generates sends the fans > into the "screamo mode" and the machine into lockdown. Any more hints? > Try "X -configure". That allows X to attempt to configure itself, and it produces an xorg.conf-like file. As you've probably learned by now, it's always a good idea to backup the old xorg.conf before making changes to it. It sounds like you're using Sid or Lenny--correct? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Gabriel Parrondo on 1 Jul 2008 05:10 El lun, 30-06-2008 a las 15:37 -0500, Bryan Bishop escribió: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:15:18 -0500 > > "Bryan Bishop" <kanzure(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found > > > myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the > > > laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI > > > card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a > > > backup configuration file (an xorg conf program said so) in > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080629 or something. The laptop will boot up, all > > > the way to the startx initiliazation, and then hang, and then the fans > > > start screaming like crazy and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or (CTRL)+ALT+Fx. > > > So that's not good. I was trying to CTRL+C and CTRL+X out ouf the > > > bootup script level when it got to the point when it was just about to > > > do startx, but this didn't stop gdm from running. > > > > At the grub screen, press 'e' and then again after selecting the kernel > > line. Append 'single' to the parameter list and press Enter then 'b' to > > boot your system. You should get a line asking for your root password, > > then a shell prompt. Now you may do whatever you would like to. > > That worked well. Now I'm finding that the old configuration isn't > working either. It's telling me that "ati" is not a valid driver. I've > ran apt-get install xorg-xserver-ati-video successfully, but this > hasn't solved the problem. X is telling me that there are no screens. > How did debian originally configure my screen? Running > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg doesn't even ask me questions > about the screen, and the xorg.conf that it generates sends the fans > into the "screamo mode" and the machine into lockdown. Any more hints? Did you install the fglrx driver when following the tutorial? It usually renders the free driver useless. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: gabrielp(a)xmpp.us "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
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