How do I fix a monitor resolution problem?

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Zscoundrel wrote:

> Careful with ctrl-alt-bksp, on my earlier RH systems is dropped locked 
> up X sessions great, but in RH9 it causes the whole damn thing to do 
> an immediate power off.  Not a good thing in my book.
> Any body remember off the top of your head how to remap that?
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> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>> On Thursday, January 01, 2004 06:40 pm, Michael Shaw wrote:
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>>> There is a moment just before Xwindows starts up that I can see a Linux
>>> command line prompt.  That goes away as soon as X fires up and then
>>> jibberish appears when it tries to display the KDE graphical login 
>>> screen.
>>> I have no working console screen.  At this point I at runlevel5 and the
>>> ALT-CTRL-BACKSPACE sequence doesn't help.
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>> Ok, you can try Ctrl-Alt-F1, but if X isn't responding it may not 
>> work.  Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is turned off.
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>> You should be able to hit tab or something at the LILO boot menu, 
>> just before the boot process starts, and enter "linux single", or 
>> possibly "linux 1" or "linux 3" to get a console session.
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isnt it in the init file/