Possible resolution/refresh rate error

jamtrix · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1

Hi, i am faily new to gentoo yet after days of grueling compiling i have finally got it up with gnome.
Because the desktop went off the screen slightly, i changed the resolution, but this didnt look good so i clicked "return to previous resolution", after doing so, the screen goes all funny with colours everywhere. My screen is a LCD display. The possiblility may be that i have accidently set the wrong refresh rate. I havnt set desktop enviroment to start automatically so i can get into the normal command enviroment. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to reset the screen settings to the default values or provide any other assistance.
Thanks for your help,

JAM

i92guboj · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

Can you change to virtual consoles with ctrl+alt+F1, ctrl+alt+F2, etc....?

If not you can boot from a livecd and do:

1.- Mount your root (/) partition under /mnt/linux
2.- cd /mnt/linux
3.- chroot /mnt/linux /bin/bash
4.- rc-update del xdm
5.- exit
6.- umount --all && reboot

Now you should boot into normal console mode.