Kaputt Komputer

Ok, I did ze big komputer zu hause kaputt last weekend.
By pure accident.
Promise.

Background
Well, I run Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, a free (as "free" in I'm a cheap-ass) Soviet-meet-Africa-ugly looking operating system. Well it is. Without some nice gui-addons it's plain horrendous!

And it doesn't play the latest games either.

Which doesn't matter because I mostly play mah jong for time beeing.
Als mein Beloved Missus.
Who do soooo pwn my sorry behind big time in the high score list.

However I use it because it is most certainly a helluva lot more secure than Vista oder WinXp.
The OS, stupid, nicht mein Missus.
Not inherently by design [nein mr Wisserbesser Niklaus it is not!] but mostly due to the fact that ze exizt nicht zu viele virusen oder trojanen.
Unt by sudo*.

The chain-of-events
The crappy OS doesn't handle resolution settings well.
I explain: The gui IS ugly and the OS sometimes just happens to get a total frisfefkoo a fucks up the resolution from time to time. Which amongst other things renders plain text practically unreadable.
So you have to manually adjust it to a resolution that works.
Which I did.
Almost.

Unfortunately, a really really unsuitable resolution was placed
d i r e c t l y above the resolution I was aiming for.
Which makes it practically unavoidable NOT to choose it.
So I choose wrong. Purely due to a crappy gui-layout for changing the settings I say.

One could wonder if choosing an unapplicable resolution should pose any kind of problem.
Well... Ja?

Cause I couldn't see frekkin shite when booting up.
Pitch black.
Which is good colour when choosing colour for suit.
But nicht als trying to log in.

(And pitch black means schwer dunkel for you germans)

And booting in [insert some frekking recovery-gui-mode] doesn't change the resolution back to something more modest which an old reliable ViewSonic of 19" can handle.
Well, not in Happy Linux Land on planet MyComputer anyway.
Go figure.

What to do?
I handled it as all computer-savvy-pros should. I ran my own default analytical Q and A thru and thru.
It goes something like this:

Revert to command line mode anno 1957? B.C?
- U bet!

Lookup support forums and wikis?
- Check.

Anybody out there stumbled on same problem?
- Mmm. Browsing...
- ...
- No.

Anybody out there with ANY kind of problem with some remotely resemblance?
- Well... Maybe. Sort of. Kinda.

Anybody that seem to have gotten some help?
- Kind of....

Is answer, help-out or "how-to" in plain english oder deutch?
- Nichts check.
- But wtf. How hard can it be? (famous last words...)

Fiddle, meddle and some command-lines later it is completely... Fried.
- Nice. Nicht.

I fix komputer good.
Sure did.
Yep.

Oh, anybody thinking the beloved Missus got a bit upset (read: ballistic) by *somebody's* feeble attempts to "mend" komputer in command-line mode?
Consider no Internet, no mail, no blogging, no mah-jong, no nothing and you get the picture already.
Me = Toasted.

I think I'll either have to do a complete reinstall (no fun) or retard revert to a non-free, non-hazzle and no-command-line-fixing-OS-what-so-ever-brand-spanking-shining-new-komputer.
Foolproof preferably. If there is one.

But with a meager budget allocated for electronics due to other priorities I'll think I have to settle for one of these goodies...


















(sudo* = japanese martial art security solution - I have black belt, of courze)