Change to character mode?

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Tue May 11 05:23:12 UTC 2004



Robert A wrote:

> I have a Red Hat Fedora installation that was setup with the incorrect
> screen resolution.
> My ATI Mach64 (whoohoo) card is easily capable of 1024x768.
> I made the mistake (?) of selecting a Generic screen of that resolution.
> The GUI login screen comes up as an incomprehensible fluttering screen as
> though the horizontal hold was way, way off!
> 
> I tried CTRL-X to go to character mode to no avail -
> I'm currently at the Linux rescue prompt to try to figure out how to change
> the resolution to 800x600, or force the system to boot into character.

Ctrl-X? Where'd you get that one from?

To stop an X session - it's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

I know you can type "linux single" at the rescue prompt to go into 
single user mode. You could then fix up the XFree config file from there.

Regards,
Ed.






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