--- "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> --- "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > charles f. zeitler wrote:
> > > > this sunday my xga monitor started acting up,
> > > > the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen.
> > > >
> > > > i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene.
> > > >
> > > > after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper
> > > > panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system'
> > > > are now right-center, launchers to the right,
> > > > clock left-center... and the 'move' function
> > > > is greyed out...
> > >
> > >
> > > Drop to runlevel 3 or boot into runlevel 3 and run
> > > system-config-display --reconfig
> > >
> > > This should reconfigure your display from scratch and hopefully better.
> > >
> > > This has to be performed as root user.
> > >
> > > Another option is to run
> > > X -configure
> > > which will make a configuration file located in your directory called
> > > /root. If it works, you will have to move the created file to /etc/X11
> > > from root and rename it as xorg.conf.
> > > You might have to control-alt-backspace to kill the server and there
> > > should be instructions at the prompt to test the configuration file.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> >
> > thanks for the tip.
> > i went single-user & did the system-config-display thing.
> > the next day or two should tell if this helps.
> > i found root's panel in good shape, but mine is still scrambled. ugh.
> > it looks like a shift to the right occurs.
> >
> >
> about one day later & no crash so far...
>
> i made a new panel to fix the other issue (duh!)
>
> thanks again, Jim.
>
> charles zeitler
>
> >
> >
well, my x session crashed again- i'm thinkin'
my video inteerface on my cheapo mb might be
goin' bad... i'm gonna start lookin for a
video card....
charles zeitler
: Do What Thou Wilt :
: Shall Be :
: The Whole of The Law :
--Aleister Crowley--
