On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Nobody ever accused me of being reasonable. :)
we know it comes from your magnetic personality ;)
In our defense, we were trying to fix things possibly related to our local network, but we didn't have a conveniently accessible HDMI monitor there. Ergo the chicken and egg.
here again, I think you need to be aware that modern VGA LCD monitors from the last 5yrs are already capable of 1920x1080 ie, hdmi resolution which is what I said at midnight -- a lot easier to find and borrow -- and I bet you $20 that IXR has one or they know where there is one. so your hdmi to vga would have worked perfectly then, and then to fix the remote login problem, and never have a need for a hdmi monitor
However I did not know about editing the file by moving the microSD card to another computer entirely, as Jeff Galinant suggested.
those links I sent at midnight after no one bothered to reply to you after 6hrs explained all of this. I'm not expecting you to be an Linux expert, I'm not a Linux expert, but i expect you to read -- you've done that before to solve other problems. And that file can be edited right on the RPi , no need for any other machine. So you could have adjusted the video mode right there to support the 10yrs monitor - which is most likely - without a doubt stops at 800x600 By using the existing hi-res vga Lcd monitor, because that supports practically every video mode from here to eternity.
From what you said the RPi was still running, you just had the wrong monitor Dan
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