Video config messed up

Z.K.

I kind of messed my video config up by choosing the wrong graphic
driver. How do I reconfigure by the command line in Fedora 8? I found
some suggestions on the Internet, but nothing worked. Linux used to
have something like XF86Config or XOrgConfig, or something like that,
but I can't find anything that will work. I guess I might have to do it
by hand.


Z.K.

Mark Anderson

In article nospam@nospam.net says...
> I kind of messed my video config up by choosing the wrong graphic
> driver. How do I reconfigure by the command line in Fedora 8? I found
> some suggestions on the Internet, but nothing worked. Linux used to
> have something like XF86Config or XOrgConfig, or something like that,
> but I can't find anything that will work. I guess I might have to do it
> by hand.

You can try /usr/bin/system-config-display.

The problem with this however is that this tool wants to fire up a
graphical gui which won't work if you screwed up your graphic config. I
don't know why they discarded the text menus for configuring graphic
cards and monitors, menus that allowed you to test if you have something
screwed up before committing to those settings...but I digress. If you
go to /etc/X11 your old settings should be in xorg.xonf.backup. Just
copy that over xorg.conf and/or edit that file manually.

Junkyard2

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:14:18 -0600, Mark Anderson wrote:

> In article nospam@nospam.net says...
>> I kind of messed my video config up by choosing the wrong graphic
>> driver. How do I reconfigure by the command line in Fedora 8? I found
>> some suggestions on the Internet, but nothing worked. Linux used to
>> have something like XF86Config or XOrgConfig, or something like that,
>> but I can't find anything that will work. I guess I might have to do
>> it by hand.
>
> You can try /usr/bin/system-config-display.
>
> The problem with this however is that this tool wants to fire up a
> graphical gui which won't work if you screwed up your graphic config. I
> don't know why they discarded the text menus for configuring graphic
> cards and monitors, menus that allowed you to test if you have something
> screwed up before committing to those settings...but I digress. If you
> go to /etc/X11 your old settings should be in xorg.xonf.backup. Just
> copy that over xorg.conf and/or edit that file manually.

you can try "/usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig" to start over.
It still requires a gui but assumes defaults. Someone correct me if this
is wrong.

Junkyard2

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:14:18 -0600, Mark Anderson wrote:

> In article nospam@nospam.net says...
>> I kind of messed my video config up by choosing the wrong graphic
>> driver. How do I reconfigure by the command line in Fedora 8? I found
>> some suggestions on the Internet, but nothing worked. Linux used to
>> have something like XF86Config or XOrgConfig, or something like that,
>> but I can't find anything that will work. I guess I might have to do
>> it by hand.
>
> You can try /usr/bin/system-config-display.
>
> The problem with this however is that this tool wants to fire up a
> graphical gui which won't work if you screwed up your graphic config. I
> don't know why they discarded the text menus for configuring graphic
> cards and monitors, menus that allowed you to test if you have something
> screwed up before committing to those settings...but I digress. If you
> go to /etc/X11 your old settings should be in xorg.xonf.backup. Just
> copy that over xorg.conf and/or edit that file manually.

you can try "/usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig" to start over.
It still requires a gui but assumes defaults. Someone correct me if this
is wrong.

Z.K.

Junkyard2 wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:14:18 -0600, Mark Anderson wrote:
>
>> In article nospam@nospam.net says...
>>> I kind of messed my video config up by choosing the wrong graphic
>>> driver. How do I reconfigure by the command line in Fedora 8? I found
>>> some suggestions on the Internet, but nothing worked. Linux used to
>>> have something like XF86Config or XOrgConfig, or something like that,
>>> but I can't find anything that will work. I guess I might have to do
>>> it by hand.
>> You can try /usr/bin/system-config-display.
>>
>> The problem with this however is that this tool wants to fire up a
>> graphical gui which won't work if you screwed up your graphic config. I
>> don't know why they discarded the text menus for configuring graphic
>> cards and monitors, menus that allowed you to test if you have something
>> screwed up before committing to those settings...but I digress. If you
>> go to /etc/X11 your old settings should be in xorg.xonf.backup. Just
>> copy that over xorg.conf and/or edit that file manually.
>
> you can try "/usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig" to start over.
> It still requires a gui but assumes defaults. Someone correct me if this
> is wrong.
>

Thanks for the help, but today when I booted up my machine, it worked
fine. Somehow it must have reset itself because I even rebooted
yesterday and it would not still start the X server.