[plug] Ubuntu 5.10 screen resolution prob

[Hendrik Strydom]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:05 +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Greetings folks,
> 
> I have just decided to try out Ubuntu again and have installed 5.10 in
> a VMware session.
> Having got it working I decided to change the screen resolution and
> while doing so changed the refresh rate from 56 to 60. This all went
> well (including when it did the test) until I restarted the system.
> Now after logging on I get a screen full of subbish. I can log in with
> safe mode text console and am looking for where to change the settings
> back to default. Any hints, BTW, what is the default root PW?
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Griffin
Can't help you with the resolution, but
sudo bash
will give you a root prompt, where you can change the root password.
You might also get somewhere with X by modifying /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
and with luck there is a backup of the previous xorg.conf in that
directory.

Regards
  Hennie

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