Re: Black screen of death

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri February 15 2008, Ron Savage wrote:
> I cannot see how to recover the default resolution. I couldn't find a
> file on the system with a modification time of when this happened, so
> the question is: Where is the current screen mode stored? And no, I
> don't mean the list of possible screen modes. For that see above.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

every time I do a kernel update, I have to redo my nvidia driver. To get the 
system working I use the DEFAULT driver( for my nvidia card), "nv" but I 
think you could select vesa...
Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

look under /etc/X11 and see how many xorg.conf files you have.. there should 
be a backup.


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Paul Cartwright
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