Friday, November 26, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Can't change graphic settings on Ubuntu 10.10 installed Dell...

 

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:35:54PM -0500, Roy wrote:
> That sounds a bit drastic and pessimistic. :)
>
> I would try booting with a different graphics mode from grub. If that got me
> in, it would likely look very good (vesa), but it would be workable. Then I
> would try to install a graphics driver from Additional Drivers. If that did
> not work (unusable) then I would try a console login from the login screen
> (under shutdown). I would apt-get purge xserver-xorg and then re-install it.

If I understand Joan's question, is this during installation? If so,
one thing the Debian based distros have over RH ones is that you should
be able to move the windows with alt+F7 and the arrow key to get the
winodw up high enough to click.

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