Resetting screen resolution in fedora 5

[l2skill]

Me in my infinite stupidity set the screen resolution beyond what my monitor can display, but I tried some of the methods I found on this site and was unable to restore the backup. How might I get the default monitor resoultion to work?

[Hlingler]

Open a terminal and log into it as root user. Then:
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.screwedup

Log out of terminal and desktop. ALT-CTL-Backspace to re-start X-server. Should start with default/probed/built-in settings.

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[l2skill]

I just started using this this morning and was tinkering where I shouldn't have, so pardon my stupidity.

How do I open a teminal?

[marcrblevins]

Control + Alt + F1
Use root login

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.screwedup
reboot

[l2skill]

Thanks guys, sorry if I offended you with blantantly noobish questions.

[marcrblevins]

No apologies needed.

[JohnVV]

we were all new at one time .you should have seen some of the questions i posted to MinGW and Dev c++ forums/malling lists( 2003) ,and here back in '05