Black Screen - I screwed up!

[gldfshkpr]

Originally Posted by Dan

Kb, just a hunch here, but see if you can access the non-functional account home directory via a root nautilus browser, and look for an ati-config (or something similar) file in the home directory. I don't have a current ati chipset in any machine here, so I can't direct you to the appropriate file, or even if there is one. I am assuming due to the presence of an Nvidia config file on my boxes here.

Sounds good. How do I get to the old account? I'm looking around in a nautilus browser and can't find it. If I need to use the browser as root, how do I do that?

[Dan]

OK. From your new user account, open a terminal, and enter the following:

 su -
(provide root password) 
nautilus --no-desktop

That will open a browser in the root home directory. Go up one level, then drill in from the root directory through /(root dorectory)>home>the busted user account

Make sense?

[gldfshkpr]

Okay. Nautilus is running as root now.

[BugRocks1]

Don't know if this helps but here:

You can use xrandr to change the position of your screen, but it will be temporaly so you have to use the display app to make it persistant. I don't know where Fedora keeps those settings when not using the Xorg.conf.


- Get the monitor identifier:

xrandr --verbose | grep -i identifier

xrandr --output [identifier here] --rotate normal

--rotate rotation
Rotation can be one of 'normal', 'left', 'right' or 'inverted'.
This causes the output contents to be rotated in the specified
direction. 'right' specifies a clockwise rotation of the picture
and 'left' specifies a counter-clockwise rotation.

I can't test it because it says here "rotation not supported".
I'm being lazy because I don't want to edit the xorg.conf file right now sorry.

Another way that may work.

- Drop to the terminal.

CTRL+SHIFT+F2

- Log in and type:

init 3

This will disable the X-Server.

- Run the xconfig app:

/usr/bin/system-config-display

- edit the xorg.conf file

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "RandRRotation" "boolean"
    Option "Rotate" "string"
EndSection

Where boolean should be 0 and string should be off(or normal but with but enabling RandRRotation with 1).

http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFre...ppendix-d.html

- Restart X

init 5

[gldfshkpr]

I'm looking around with the root browser. I had to make is show hidden files obviously. Not seeing anything for the ATI driver.

---------- Post added at 09:07 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 09:06 PM CST ----------

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

Don't know if this helps but here:

You can use xrandr to change the position of your screen, but it will be temporaly so you have to use the display app to make it persistant. I don't know where Fedora keeps those settings when not using the Xorg.conf.


- Get the monitor identifier:

xrandr --verbose | grep -i identifier

xrandr --output [identifier here] --rotate normal

--rotate rotation
Rotation can be one of 'normal', 'left', 'right' or 'inverted'.
This causes the output contents to be rotated in the specified
direction. 'right' specifies a clockwise rotation of the picture
and 'left' specifies a counter-clockwise rotation.

I can't test it because it says here "rotation not supported" but that maybe helps.
I'm being lazy because I don't want to edit the xorg.conf file right now sorry.

Another way that may work.

- Drop to the terminal.

CTRL+SHIFT+F2

- Log in and type:

init 3

This will disable the X-Server.

- Run the xconfig app:

/usr/bin/system-config-display

- edit the xorg.conf file

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "RandRRotation" "boolean"
    Option "Rotate" "string"
EndSection

Where boolean should be 0 and string should be off(or normal but with but enabling RandRRotation with 1).

http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFre...ppendix-d.html

- Restart X

init 5

Wow. I'll have to study this for a bit. Thanks!

[Dan]

Well, it was just a hunch. However, you can use the command above to get into the old account for files. Just remember that after root moves them, you will need to change ownership and permissions for the new account to use them.

Alternatively, you might try giving your new account the same user group permissions as your old account. When I vunderborked my old account on this box, that's how I got access to the old directory and files from a user account rather than root.

[BugRocks1]

Did some digging and found a file in /home/[user]/.config

monitors.xml

And it holds configuration information about the display.

[Dan]

Hmmmm. Don't have that one here. But this is a desktop box, too. At any rate, I'm so tired I'm seeing double, so good luck on it. I'll check back in the morning.

[gldfshkpr]

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

Did some digging and found a file in /home/[user]/.config

monitors.xml

And it holds configuration information about the display.

Yes! I find this too.

<monitors version="1">
  <configuration>
      <clone>no</clone>
      <output name="VGA-0">
      </output>
      <output name="DVI-0">
      </output>
      <output name="S-video">
      </output>
      <output name="LVDS">
          <vendor>???</vendor>
          <product>0x0000</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
          <width>1400</width>
          <height>1050</height>
          <rate>50</rate>
          <x>0</x>
          <y>0</y>
          <rotation>right</rotation>
          <reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
          <reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
      </output>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

[BugRocks1]

Storage of RANDR configurations

A RANDR configuration is a set of outputs, CRTCs, and their relationships (which CRTC drives which output with which modeline). GNOME remembers the configurations which the user has saved in $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/monitors.xml (normally ~/.config/monitors.xml). The code responsible for reading and writing this file is in gnome-desktop/libgnome-desktop/gnome-rr-config.c.

The configuration file looks like this:

http://live.gnome.org/RandR

I think Gnome remembers the settings using that file(monitors.xml) according to the link above.

If he changes the entries to normal his monitor should go back to the original state hopefully.

---------- Post added at 09:42 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 09:38 PM CST ----------

Originally Posted by gldfshkpr

Yes! I find this too.

<monitors version="1">
  <configuration>
      <clone>no</clone>
      <output name="VGA-0">
      </output>
      <output name="DVI-0">
      </output>
      <output name="S-video">
      </output>
      <output name="LVDS">
          <vendor>???</vendor>
          <product>0x0000</product>
          <serial>0x00000000</serial>
          <width>1400</width>
          <height>1050</height>
          <rate>50</rate>
          <x>0</x>
          <y>0</y>
          <rotation>right</rotation>
          <reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
          <reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
      </output>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

There change that to "normal" and should go back to the way it was.
Mine reads like this:

<rotation>normal</rotation>

[gldfshkpr]

Yes!

I put in normal where "right" was and am typing this from my old (now fixed) account!!! Thank you to everybody here! I'm wearing the biggest grin right now.

[BugRocks1]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Te...otated_Monitor

Maybe you should also post a bugreport about this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

[gldfshkpr]

Originally Posted by BugRocks1

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Te...otated_Monitor

Maybe you should also post a bugreport about this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Excellent idea. Oh, and one more thing. Seeing how I did the system-display-config --reconfig thing, should I reverse that or is there no harm done there.

[BugRocks1]

Originally Posted by gldfshkpr

Excellent idea. Oh, and one more thing. Seeing how I did the system-display-config --reconfig thing, should I reverse that or is there no harm done there.

To undo those changes you just need to delete the xorg.conf file

su -
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I think.

I wouldn't bother unless there was an issue.