Reset Monitor Settings

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Till
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Good Morning everyone

I have a drastic problem with my Trisquel-mini 6.0 LXDE.
I changend unintentionally in the Monitor Settings (GUI) someting, I tink.

Now, if I start up Trisquel, following happens:
- The Bootmanager starts without problems
- I can see how Trisquels starts (I have automatic login)
- I see for short time some text and the mouse, then the screen have no input signal.

How can I reset the Monitor Settings (in the text based configurations)?
I have a Ubuntu on the same Computer and have access to the system fils.

Thanks for help
Till

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Can you access a terminal by typing Ctrl+Alt+F1? If so, the problem is indeed related to the X server. You can log in the terminal and take a look at the Xorg's logs and spot the problem:
$ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

If a X has a configuration file, you can remove it:
$ sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg/conf

Till
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Yes, I can go to the terminal an login.

If I take a look on Xorg.0.log, I don't understand one word. Can you help me, how I have to read this or say me what you see in the file? I make a attachment of it.

I don't have a diretcory /etc/X11/xorg/
But I tryed with removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.vesa, but nothing changed :-(

hmm....
Would be nice, if You can help me, thanks

PS: there are some more files in /etc/X11/, perhaps they are interessting? I take a Screenshot of them.

Screenshot - x11.png
AttachmentSize
Xorg.0.log_.txt 60 KB
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lembas
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Maybe you accidentally hit the key to switch monitor output to external monitor?

Till
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Joined: 11/15/2014

Yesssss...
the xrandr was helpfull!

I opened blind a Terminal (with Ctrl+Alt+T) and tipped "xrandr --auto"
Then I saved the Monitor Settings with the GUI, because: "Changes you make using xrandr will only last through the current session"
Thats all

Thanks to all for help!!