Hi there,

one of these problems you don´t know where to start solving.

1. Hardware:
Standard System with Athlon, Hauppauge PVR-150, TFT-Monitor, no TV.

2. What I did:
I changed the Screnn settings: I wanted to display the GUI and the liveTV in different video-Modes. I just tried to see, what happens. When I changed the GUI to 640x480 MythTV wanted to restart, what I granted.

3. What happend (the symptoms)
After the restart, I had a visible screen of 640x480 displaying part of this Tux-on-the-sofa-watching-TV-starting-screen. I could not use the mouse, though the mouse-pointer is visible. MythTV does not load. The system hangs there. So I cannot open or close anything.

When I switch to another tty, I only have a 640x480 part of a 1024x768 screen visible, too. At least I could type there.

4. What drives me mad
I am a n00bi to Linux (except for some kiddie programming back in ´93). I am not that familiar with the editors. I NEED the (now invisible) last line of the page to see, what commands I am typing. So I will have difficulties in solving my screen resolution problem without having the problem solved first.

Has Anyone any hints or at least some pity for me?

Red

Have you use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console?
You can use SSH to go in remotely, or use vnc.

Bruce S.

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Updated 2019/10/26: AthlonII X2 265 Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

Thanks, Bruce.

That would solve my No. 4 and at least I don´t go mad.

But how to I reset the screen resolution?

Waaaaaait!

Yes. I tried a text console. They also only show the upper left 640x480-part of a 1024x768 window. So I cannot see the right side or the bottom.

You can use a SSH client such as PuTTY to access a command line.
Where did you change the resolution in the first place?
It might be worthwhile posting your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Bruce S.

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Updated 2019/10/26: AthlonII X2 265 Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1