[SOLVED] Messed up something on xconf

08-19-2008	#1 (permalink)
flynismo Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 94	[SOLVED] Messed up something on xconf and now I can't log into my desktop. I made some changes to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and I must have entered something wrong... When I start up fedora, I get error messages, and am taken to a commandline, but not exactly sure where to go from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

08-19-2008	#2 (permalink)
khafa Linux Engineer Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 839	check this one out __________________ Linux and me it's a love story

08-19-2008	#3 (permalink)
daark.child Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: South Yorks, UK Posts: 4,067	What are the exact error messages? Undo the changes you made or run "system-config-display --reconfig" as root.

08-19-2008

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Originally Posted by khafa

check this one out

Excellent! Five minutes after reading that, I'm able to log in to my system again...thank you very much for your help, you probably just saved me from having to do a reinstall.

I'm surprised you found that so fast; I searched through the forums for at least a half hour before giving up and starting a thread....I

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