Cannot read, messed up my screen mode

[jpharvey]

Hi,
I have been reading quite a lot and please, don't tell me to search for resolution because I did and all I found is that I should search for resolution.

I have installed MPLAYER last night. I was running fine except that when I use the command to stretch the movie to use the whole screen it becomes very slow and out of sync audio/video.

I figured that my resolution was too high so I decided to use 480i instead of 1080i by modifying the kboot.cfg

Now, when I reboot, my screen is completely unreadable, I see tree huge mouse pointers and cannot run anything. The video mode is wrong. I was able to reboot in the game OS but I would like to get YDL fixed.

Questions:
1- How can I start YDL in command line only to be able to edit my kboot.cfg file without having the GUI?
2- From the GUI, is there a way to switch back to default video mode?
3- Any hot key for this because I cannot see where the mouse is going so I cannot open a console and type a command?
4- Any hotkey to open the console?

This is a lot of questions but If you can answer any one of them it will certainly help me. I have searched these forums for hours but I cannot find any of these answers. Thanks in advance.

[H.axen]

wow, u really effed it up good. If you searched you would have found that you can hit the TAB key at the kboot prompt and cycle some boot options.

Additionally, you can just start typing at the kboot prompt, like to change the directory, list the directory, edit the kboot file etc.

Plus you can run the ps3videomode command such as ps3videomode -v #

Where # is one of the video mode numbers listed in the ps3videomode post which can be found when you search either resolution or ps3videomode. The default "install" and "ydl" options use mode 3, running at 720p. Mode 1 is a safe default that works on the most monitors or televisions.

report back and gl.

[jpharvey]

Thanks a lot for a very nice response. It is always hard to know what to search for unfortunately. The TAB key is probably all I need. I have rebooted a few times, tried some other keys and always ended up in the GUI/unreadable interface. I will give it a try later but I am very confident that if I can stop the boot process and access the files I will fix my mess.

Thanks

[H.axen]

that ps3videomode command will do the trick as well. Once you are restored to a good videomode, you can make your edits to kboot.conf etc. open up a terminal window or do it from the kboot prompt before you launch your windows manager.

[jpharvey]

The TAB did the trick. I was able to start ydltext, edit my kboot file and also run the ps3videomode command. I got it to show mode 1, 2, 3 and 4 correctly but now, if I use any other than 4 I still get a GUI out of sync. This is weird.

If I use mode 1, 2 or 3, as soon as the gui appears, I cannot see the login box at all, the mouse pointer is doubled or tripled (2 or 3 moving at different places on the screen). They are very big and pixelated. As soon as I get back to mode 4 for 1080i the picture is OK.

I may have an idea why. I followed the instructions on the YDL web site on Configuring YDL 5.0 for the chosen PS3 video mode and they say we must edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the following values.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
DefaultFbBPP 32
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
FbBPP 32
Modes "1920x1200" "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1280x768" "1280x720" "720x576" "720x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
FbBPP 32
Modes "1920x1200" "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1280x768" "1280x720" "720x576" "720x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
FbBPP 32
Modes "1920x1200" "1920x1080" "1280x1024" "1280x768" "1280x720" "720x576" "720x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I did that and have been having those problems since then. Even in 1080i mode 4 I see correctly but I am losing a lot of the screen information (overscan I think). For example, the toolbar that should be at the bottom of the screen doesn't show up. Some windows open at the top left and I dont see the top and left part, etc... It seems like it's using a higher resolution than my screen can handle. This may be why I cannot use mode 1,2 and 3 even though I get good results with the ps3videomode command.

Would someone have the values of the default xorg.conf file please (I forgot to do a backup, shame on me)...

Thanks a lot