Everything looks too bright!

[dtk]

I just got a new monitor and everything looks too bright and the brghtness/contrast controlls dont seem to help. Everything looks fine before it gets into KDE. It also looks fine in XP. Can anyone help me out?

[dtk]

Hrmm.. Just booted from cd and everything looks fine...

How do you change settings back to default?

[Markus]

You could copy over the XF86Config-4 from the cd to your hd install.
Assuming your hd:s root is at hda1 do:

sudo su 
mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 
cd /mnt/hda1/etc/X11 
mv XF86Config-4 XF86Config-4.old 
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /mnt/hda1/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

[dtk]

Umm... Where do i type this??
Sorry. im a noob to linux

When i type

mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

It tells me: You must specify the filesystem type.

[Markus]

You type it in a konsole, the monitor icon on the taskbar.
Could you paste in here the /etc/fstab from your hd install, need to know your / mountpoint and filesystem.
EDIT: You might not need to remount, perhaps just: mount dev/hda1 mnt/hda1

[dtk]

ok whan i type etc/fstab it tells me permission denied.
i know my filesystem is ext3. ihave no idea what a mount point is.
when i try "mount dev/hda5 mnt/hda5" it tells me:
"mount point mnt/hda5 does not exist"

when i try mount dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 (with slash infront of mnt/hda5), it says: special device dev/hda5 does not exist

[dtk]

I tried mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 (with slash infront of mnt/hda5 and dev/hda5) and followed the other instuctions and it worked!
Thanks for your help.

[Markus]

Good thing you got it working.
The mountpoint I was interested in was the /mnt/hda5.