by sambolinux » Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:01 pm
Hi Wolfie Lee, First you need to create an Xorg.conf file then you can edit it to change resolution and other things ;and if you don't have another computer handy, you will have to print this because once get done killing the X-server you won't be able to switch back to tty7 and have a display .
1. press
ctrl alt f1 this will take you to tty1. Once there login just like you would normally eg:name , password.
2. Now to kill the X-server
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sudo service (gdm or kdm or lightdm or mdm) stop
depending on which one your are using if has unity then it is
lightdm or does not have unity then it is
gdm or if it has a newer mint then
mdm or if it is kde(kubuntu)
kdm3. Now that X-server is dead you can type
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sudo X-configure
into tty1 this will create xorg.conf in your home folder or ,if you have driver issues, it will give some segfault or some error. Once created we need to copy it to /etc/X11 and we do this by
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sudo cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
this will give the basics and now can edit as you like. Also use
gedit instead of
nano it is much easier for a newbee. Unless you don't have a display then you will have to use
nano.
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