[YLUG] changing screen resolution from the command line

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Rachel Cavill wrote:
> I've been a bit silly and now my screen resolution is set to something my
> screen can't display - so everytime I try to run X I just get a message from
> my monitor about hw it can't display.
> I can get to a command prompt and have tried changing the screen resolution
> using xf86config and xf86cfg but to no avail, when I reboot and start X it's
> still broken.  I'm running mandrake 10 and the original change which threw
> everything off was made from the mandrke command centre grphical interface
> thingy. Any ideas how to gt back to a working screen resolution?

Have you tried CtrlAlt+ and CtrlAlt- (both on the numeric keypad) to 
toggle through resolutions in X?

Gavin