[Preston] Monitor setting

[dave sawyer]

At the risk of sounding thick, perhaps you should try a re-install.

Dave.

Quoting Matthew Field <mlf1ect at bolton.ac.uk>:

> Hello all
> 
> Hoping some body can help me. I tried to install RH9 on a box, but got
> the monitor resolution / refresh wrong. Now when I try to boot it the
> monitor just rolls over and says "Frequency Over Range" . 
> 
> I'm assuming that there is a config file that could be changed to sort
> this out? I've booted the box with Knoppix and found /etc/X11/XF86Config
> but can't modify it or change permissions from Knoppix. Is this the
> right file? 
> 
> I presume that to modify it I'll need to tell grub to boot the box to a
> command line? How? Can anybody point me towards anything on the web that
> deals with this problem?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matthew Field 
> 
> 
> 
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