big mistake :-(

oxid · Post by **oxid** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 8:50 pm

i`ve did a did mistake, sorry i`m a noop!

I run xbvset an change the resolution settings from 640x480 to 800x600.
Now, after the screen "Starting Linux" my tv screen is only black!

The LEDs flickering red, green, orange, green. ( I wait 15 mins)
I don`t have access with vnc or webadmin.

Is there a way to change the settings back without reinstall the complete gentoox?

thank you for all help. oxid

Angel of Dawn · Post by **Angel of Dawn** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:08 pm

If SSH doesnt work too you can try to connect your Xbox to a monitor.
But i think you have to reinstall Gentoox

oxid · Post by **oxid** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:35 pm

Thank you for the realy fast reply

what i need to connect the xbox to my monitor?
I think a cable adaptor for vga, or not?
I`m a tv electronics ingeneer, is there a way to make this adaptor by myself?
I have a V1.3 box, my conexant chip doesnt`t support vga.

thanks oxid

Angel of Dawn · Post by **Angel of Dawn** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:48 pm

DAMNED

I ran magic and switched to 800x600 and now i got the same problem

Yes you can make it on your own, but its very difficult. Look at tutorials from xbox-scene.com
A good vga adapter costs about 80 euro, but i still dont think this will solve the problem

Angel of Dawn · Post by **Angel of Dawn** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:16 pm

Seems like KDE doesnt work with 800x600...
800x600 worked fine in XFCE, then i switched to KDE and now it doesnt boot again

Taily · Post by **Taily** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:53 am

If you have a native install you could just put the harddrive in your pc and boot up a linux livecd and fix the settings,
although, suppose its possible with the stardust cd too..
You start it up, ssh to it, cancel the install (ctrl+c) and then you make a direcotry (mkdir /mnt/fatx) and mount whatever partition you got the rootfs on into that dir..
now you can make another dir (mkdir /mnt/rootfs) then you type "mount -o loop /mnt/fatx/rootfs /mnt/rootfs"

now you could do "chroot /mnt/rootfs /bin/bash" and then run xbvset, that i suppose would be the easiest way for you

, and then edit linuxboot.cfg by hand to change 800x600 to whatever the other one is

Or you could just make xfce start isntead of kde

lotw · Post by **lotw** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:01 pm

Angel of Dawn wrote:Seems like KDE doesnt work with 800x600...
800x600 worked fine in XFCE, then i switched to KDE and now it doesnt boot again

That is funny, I am running KDE on mine at 800x600, I have the Monster HDTV kit. Works great, took that extra Xbox I own and made it a file server.

Great Linux build so far.