The Refresh Rate Catch-22
May. 18th, 2006 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nemorathwaldMy Linux box is still set up to the resolution or refresh rate of that monitor which burned out last week. On every other monitor I use it with, it looks fine through the booting phase showing the Ubuntu logo above a scrolling list of things that are happening. But just when it is about to get to the desktop, the image shuts off and is replaced with the words "OUT OF SYNC".
I already tried booting from a Live CD. I have several dozen of direct-from-Canonical officially-stamped Ubuntu Breezy Badger live CDs. They each initialize an install process which insists that the CD lacks files that it needs.
The Lojbanists in our web-based chat room told me I need to alter my config file. I don't know how to get a command line though. They suggested I try to SSH into the computer from another computer. This is a process that I don't know, and I don't know the IP address of the machine.
Someone suggested that pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 during the bootup process might give me a command line. If that works, I could type "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and I would be editing my config file. Then I would just have to figure out what part sets the resolution or refresh rate, and figure out what to change it to through trial and error.
I think I'll erase my hard drive and reinstall Ubuntu. It sounds easier. I probably won't lose much, because 90% of the data on my Ubuntu machine also resides online, or was copied from my Windows box to begin with.
I already tried booting from a Live CD. I have several dozen of direct-from-Canonical officially-stamped Ubuntu Breezy Badger live CDs. They each initialize an install process which insists that the CD lacks files that it needs.
The Lojbanists in our web-based chat room told me I need to alter my config file. I don't know how to get a command line though. They suggested I try to SSH into the computer from another computer. This is a process that I don't know, and I don't know the IP address of the machine.
Someone suggested that pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 during the bootup process might give me a command line. If that works, I could type "vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf" and I would be editing my config file. Then I would just have to figure out what part sets the resolution or refresh rate, and figure out what to change it to through trial and error.
I think I'll erase my hard drive and reinstall Ubuntu. It sounds easier. I probably won't lose much, because 90% of the data on my Ubuntu machine also resides online, or was copied from my Windows box to begin with.
