Re: problems... please help!

From: Sonny Ha (sonny_at_home.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 01:37:19 -0500

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:38:57 +0000, Gene wrote:

> Sonny Ha wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> < snip >
>
>>
>> The other problem that I got is I accidently modified the Monitor type
>> setting in System Settings/Display/Advanced/Monitor within KDE to
>> something that makes the monitor unable to display anything the next time
>> I logged on. I tried to reboot to level 1 and openned the file XF86Config
>> in /etc/X11 to modify the Monitor setting part, but I couldn't save the
>> changes. I even tried to replace it with the backup file but that didn't
>> work either. I got the error saying that the file is read-only system
>> file. Is there a way to put back this backup file? Or any workaround?
>
> You didn't say who you were logged on as, or what editor you
> used ---
>
> ls -al is your friend in determining the permissions of /etc/X11 and
> the filese therein; chmod is your friend in changing the permissions
> should you neeed to.
>

Thanks for the suggestions. How come didn't I think of that? I should've
looked at the permission and possibly changed it before trying to replace
the file. But now I've re-installed everything (well, I didn't know what
to else to do and ran out of patience, everything works fine now). By the way, I
was using vi, and it was probably because of the permission issue that I
couldn't save the changes. Thanks again.
Sonny

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