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Okay... so I messed up my graphics card settings. I browsed, from a different computer, to find a fix and it recommended the following: Log in a root Type init ...
  1. 08-18-2008 #1
    MarkTSmith78@gmail.com
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    Video Problem

    Okay... so I messed up my graphics card settings. I browsed, from a different computer, to find a fix and it recommended the following:

    Log in a root
    Type init 3
    Type sax2 -r -m 0=vesa

    This got me back up to a single monitor working. However, I used to have two. Laptop and monitor plugged into laptop.

    Now I can only have one or the other.

    Please help me understand how to get back to having both.

    Thanks.

    Mark
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    what kind of video card do you have? If you have nvidia do the following:

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

    after this installs, in terminal type "sudo nvidia-settings"

    that's an easy to use GUI for changing things like the monitors being used.
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    sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
    It looks like you are using OpenSUSE. Which version of OpenSUSE do you have?
    Which Graphics Card do you have?
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