problems with display

I had a problem with my display flickering on my laptop(dell inspirion 1000).
I went in and started changed the refresh rate. I went from 60 to 56.

Anyway, the monitor is totally scrambled and totally unviewable.

I was just wondering if there is a way to boot to command line and change the monitor refresh rate manually. Oh, I'm running Mandrake 10.1.

I don't want to have to reload it because I had so much trouble getting my wireless to work.

Any suggestions on how to change the refresh rate......

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Originally Posted by charlescpc

I had a problem with my display flickering on my laptop(dell inspirion 1000).
I went in and started changed the refresh rate. I went from 60 to 56.

Anyway, the monitor is totally scrambled and totally unviewable.

I was just wondering if there is a way to boot to command line and change the monitor refresh rate manually. Oh, I'm running Mandrake 10.1.

I don't want to have to reload it because I had so much trouble getting my wireless to work.

Any suggestions on how to change the refresh rate......

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hi can you boot your laptop into any sort of safe mode, as you can in windows ?

In version 9, when it's booting up, press "I" to get interactive boot up process. Then you can reset the display.

I finally got it. There was a file that has the settings in it. I was able to locate the file. I noticed the file had an old version with the file extension of old. I just renamed the file with the old extension which had my previous setting. Then everything was back to normal.

I can't for the life of me remember the file name.

I could boot into "command line" but i had a hard time finding a command line editor.
There was emacs but it was a real pain to use. I think there was one called vi.

Anyway a simple renaming of the file solved the problem and I'm a happy camper now...