On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:45 -0800, Noah Patton wrote: > Good day, > > I am having difficulty getting Fedora Core 3 installed on my specific > hardware configuration. > > Although the install completes fine, when the system first boots and > should bring up the first-boot setup assistant, after the startup > screen goes away I just get a blank screen with a cursor. > > ALT-F1 works fine, and I can do a ctrl-alt-delete and reboot the system > cleanly, however I can't get to a command line and after each reboot I > end up right back at the same problem. > > This system is a clean wipe of the hard drive. Windows XP SP2 was > previously installed, although not heavily used. Installation of > Debian unstable was also unsuccessful, it hard locked during first > boot. KnoppMyth installed and worked fine, until I tried to exit the > GUI or reboot (even with sudo reboot/poweroff) - at which point the > system would hard lock. > > My best guess says I have hardware problems - but I am a bit mystified > as there were no issues under WinXP. Am I missing some incompatibility > information here? Try booting to runlevel 3m which should give you a login prompt. Log in as root and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf Add a line: Option "NoAccel" to the "Device" section of the file. Then try: # startx >X.out 2>X.err See if: (a) it works, or (b) any useful diagnostics get logged to either X.out or X.err Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
