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Want to know how to reset the distro from the command line

Asked by Kevin

My issue is that I installed 8.10, and it ran in low graphics mode, so I went in and tried to change it to 1024x768 in the GUI, when I did that my screen schrunk and everything is wavy, I cant make anything out. When I try and ALt+F2 and go command line and try the gksudo gedit /etc/X11?xorg.conf command it comes back saying GTK-Warning ** cannot open display. SO, I need to know if there is a way to just completely reset to defaults from the command line, or what my best course of action should be from here. Any help would be appreciated.

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

To reset your xserver settings, please try this command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Also it is a good idea to make sure that you have the proper graphics drivers installed. This tends to help any resolutions problems. To determine what graphics card you are using

lspci | grep -i vga

If you are having trouble enabling your graphics drivers let us know.

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Kevin (keaton417) said : 		#2

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.