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My desktop/screen is weird

  Date: Jan 04    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 336
  

I ran my laptop all day long on Kubuntu, and all was fine. When I got
home, though, I shut it down, brought it inside, and rebooted it. Now
the screen appears to have the wrong refresh rate or something -- there
are areas where "snow" (like on a TV) is visible, several areas with
diagonal lines, and even the menus are "fractured" and the pieces are
out of order.

Windows XP still works OK, and booting Kubuntu from teh live CD works
OK, but Kubuntu on my hard drive is messed up, and any desktop setting
larger than 640 X 480 is messed up.

Somebody tell me how to fix this, please?

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4 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Jan 04    


I had messed up my xorg.conf file and had to edit it to get back to a
working x enviroment. Problem is I cant remember how I got permissions
to edit it with the live CD. Pretty sure that's what I did to fix mine.

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Jan 04    

I don't think I've messed with it, but just in case, where do I
find it?

This machine seems to work OK at 640 X 480, but I sure have to scroll
around a lot to see what I'm doing. It's a real pain in the neck. I'm
already thinking about just wiping out the partition and starting over,
but I hope I don't have to.

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Jan 04    

It seems to be fixed now. Your reference to the
xorg.conf file got me to look on google to read about it, and when I
checked, there were seven old versions in there, so I simply copied and
pasted the contents of the oldest one into the current one. I can see
again!

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Jan 04    

I have a Toshiba2595 CDS that I put Xubuntu on and I
get a weird strip accross the bottom as you described.
What does your working xorg.conf file look like?

 
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