<div>Sorry for lack of reply here, but whole family has been ill !!<br> </div>
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<div>I had the right idea, but wasn't sure of the vommands and syntax...</div><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zeth Green</b> <<a href="mailto:theology@gmail.com">theology@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Okay just tried it on an Ubuntu machine:<br><br>> 1. Go to the command line.<br><br>CTRL+Alt+F1<br><br>
Sadly they have not bothered to give me a framebuffer console so it<br>looks a bit 1970s.</blockquote>
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<div>I had that bit ;-)</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> 2. Kill X (including gdm) using the init script.<br><br>sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop</blockquote>
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<div>I couldn't work out how to kill it properly. I had sort of managed it with a failed shutdown attempt - not sure what really happened there.</div>
<div>Anyway, this way worked - still don't understand the command though :-(</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> 3. Start gnome the old fashioned way, on its own (i.e. without gdm)<br><br>startx</blockquote>
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<div>I had several goes at restartin X - eg X and start X - but I kept getting just the horrible background and a big cross - no icons or anything.</div>
<div>I don't know if that was because I hadn't stopped it properly, or hadn't started it properly.</div>
<div>Your way worked, of course ;-)</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> 4. Change the options back</blockquote>
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<div>Strangely, the option had all vanished - the item had gone from the menu. Must have been something else I tried along the way.</div>
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<div>Anyway, as it was a fresh install that I had messed up, I just reinstalled it all. This time it picked up my new monitor, and all the display setting worked - ie I could get above 1024x768 - which I had to force manually for my old monitor.
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<div>Thanks for the help.</div>
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<div>I'm learning more each time I play with this Linux thing - I just wish I had the time to play more often.</div>
<div>As a Microsoft trainer, I have to concentrate on other stuff as my first priority.</div>
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<div>Thanks again</div>
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<div>Tim.C<br> </div>