DudeBoyz

One trouble I'm having with the Parallels Virtual Machine on my Mac is that if a distribution does not properly identify a display, the GUI crashes and I can't seem to figure out how to recover at the command line.

Kubuntu for instance does not respond to XFREE86CFG or XORGCFG.

Ubuntu (gnome) and Kubuntu (KDE) both go ape-nuts when I set the display to 1280x1024, for example. I can find no way to recover. Mandriva handles it and Suse handles it no problem. In fact, Suse handles 1600x1000 without any problem. Mandriva dies if I try that res and I also can't recover.

Is there any universal way to either RESET the display to some sort of default (like Windows SAFE MODE) or to manually configure the display settings at the command line?

It's been one of those annoying things about Linux since back in the day. But at least with XFREE86CFG you could set it back to some sort of standard setting - like 800x600 at 60hz - and then when you did a STARTX it would come up in that mode and you could work on choosing a different resolution later.

I'm at a loss. I'd appreciate some help.

Thanks