{"id":81,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=81"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"recover-from-monitor-over-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Recover from monitor over-settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When messing around with different video refresh rates, you could end up with a garbled screen full of unreadable junk. To bring the video_server back to a sane state, hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12. BeOS will reset the video to 640x480x8bpp.<br \/>\nIn extreme cases, you can also fix things manually by moving drivers around. This should seldom be necessary as the above should always work, but just in case, here&#8217;s the scoop:<br \/>\nReboot into the fail-safe graphics mode and delete the appropriate graphics-card driver in <code>\/boot\/beos\/system\/add-ons\/app_server<\/code>, and the corresponding accelerant in <code>\/boot\/beos\/system\/add-ons\/accelerants<\/code>. Reboot, and the resolution will be the default 640&#215;480 8bpp. You should now be able to reset your resolution and color depth from the Screen preferences panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When messing around with different video refresh rates, you could end up with a garbled screen full of unreadable junk. To bring the video_server back to a sane state, hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12. BeOS will reset the video to 640x480x8bpp. In extreme cases, you can also fix things manually by moving drivers around. This should seldom be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}