Hi, I just installed FC4 and was having a good time with it. Please keep in mind that I'm new at this.

The display setting was 800x600 and I wanted to change it to 1024x whatever. So I went to display and then settings in my gnome gui and changed to that resolution and changed the color depth from millions of colors to thousands of colors. It told me to log off and log back on for settings to take effect. I did that, and nothing happened, so I rebooted. Now every time I rebooot, the monitor displays everything until X starts. Then it just goes out of frequency and I can't see a damn thing. The thing about fedora is that when you start the computer it starts X right after setting up your network audio (whatever the hell that is) and then loads everything else. Then after starting X it shows the nice picture of a computer and a status bar of the booting process etc. etc.

So the question is, how can I change my display settings back in my config file, I don't even know what it is. When I changed my display settings originally it popped a message box saying it had changed some x file and had made a backup out of the original one. but I can't remember it. I would find it no problem, but I can't see anything. as soon as fedora starts loading, the monitor goes blank. any suggestions on how to prevent X from starting so I can load in text mode? I tried going into the grub command right when you select your o/s to load in grub, when you press c it takes you to some command prompt, but I only have access to a handful of command none of which can access my files i suppose.

I was thinking, fedora automatically loads ssh daemon in the background everytime I startup, so would it be possible for me to just let it load and then go somewhere else and then ssh in from there?

although the best solution would be to prevent X from starting so I can change back the settings.

thanks.

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thanks guys, problem fixed.

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