vincent Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 X fails to start when i reboot. heres what happened, i still wasnt able to achive the desired resolution of 1152x864. So with some advice from the Ubunnut irc room i was told to delete all other resolutions in my xorg.conf file (forgot to back it up, i know ;) ) and logout , hit CTRL+ALT+Backspace to restart X. however this wasnt succesful so i asked if i can change my "display" from "Generic Monitor" to what my monitor actually is: "Sony Trinitron Multiscan 200SX" ( i know this monitor can get 1152x8 because its max res can go up to 1280x10 and i have done so in Windows XP) So i did so and now X crashed and all i have is the Terminal. HELP! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 12, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 12, 2005 Login and navigate to your /etc/X11/ directory. See if there is an xorg.conf~ (or other such potential backup) file. Those are typically automatically made when you make an edit (depends on app). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted April 12, 2005 Author Share Posted April 12, 2005 Login and navigate to your /etc/X11/ directory. See if there is an xorg.conf~ (or other such potential backup) file. Those are typically automatically made when you make an edit (depends on app). 585766590[/snapback] I'm sure i can navigate to it (etc/X11/xorg.conf) but how/what can i edit that file in order to get x backup and running and to have an actual GUI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j79zlr Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 rerun xorgconfig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 If the backup is there can you not just cp it back to be named xorg.conf from xorg.conf~ ? Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted April 12, 2005 Author Share Posted April 12, 2005 I DIDNT make a backup of the xorg.conf file. ;) that what i'm saying and that what i said in my intial post. :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 13, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 13, 2005 Some apps will automatically make a backup for you. cd to /etc/X11 and do an ls. If it looks like there is a backup, rm the old (bad) file, and mv [backup.file] xorg.conf. Switch to runlevel 5 and you should be up and running. If not, then run xorgconfig, as j79zir recommended to create a new file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dotRoot Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 What they are saying about the backup files is that some apps, especially the 'essential' ones will create a backup if any changes are made in case of misconfiguration such as this case. Almost always the backup file made will be: filename.ext~, so in your case it should be: xorg.conf~. Some people don't have the xorgconf utility. If you can't rerun it then one of us can post a generic type one that will get your X started back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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