I messed up - display is too big.

[atk_nut]

It's all my fault, hopefully somebody out there can help!

I was trying to adjust the display resolution on my dell inspiron 6000 and messed it up. I beleive essentially what I did is made the total display size twice as big as the monitor and set the monitor to display the lower half only.

Everything now boots up fine, but the menu bar is totally off the screen. (way up where I can't see it.)

If I boot up in recovery, and run:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

will that give me a chance to fix it?

If not, how can I fix it?

Thanks.

[mhgsys]

Well , you could try:

You could also make a backup so you know what the original xorg.conf was.



sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf


and save it like xorgbackup.conf or something.


also:
Maybe take a look at this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6897892#post6897892

[atk_nut]

Ok, I got the display back. Thanks.

I used ctrl-f2 and ran gnome-display-settings.

The next thing. (what I was originally trying to do.) is to get the display settings to 1280x800.

Can you help with that? I've found quite a few threads on it, but I can't seem to get it going.

Thanks.

[mhgsys]

You can open a terminal and edit xorg.conf typ:


sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf


scroll to

SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection

and adjust your Modes.

save your xorg.conf file and restart X.



sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart


If it doesn't work you could edit xorg.conf again in console to adjust it, or you could just




sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

again.

Btw,Could you post the info from lspci, I want to know which video card your using.

open a terminal


lspci | grep VGA

[atk_nut]

Thanks everyone. It's solved!

[mhgsys]

how did you solve it?

Did you solve it with the commands I gave you or did you solve it in another way.
I find it's always interesting to learn new way's.