On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 20:02 +1000, Michael Wright wrote: > its the graphical login that wont boot.... OK, so what *does* it do? You really, really need to include some details here. "It won't boot" tells us essentially nothing. Does it hang? Is there an error message? If so, what? Have you tried any trouble-shooting steps? If so, what? What was the result? Would you take a car to a mechanic and say "it isn't working" and expect him to be able to help? Or would you say something like "when I make a left turn I hear a squeaking noise" instead? Details are very helpful when trouble-shooting. Try rebooting, and when you get to the very first Linux screen (should be a menu of boot options), press "a" to edit the kernel line. Use your backspace key to erase the words "rhgb quiet" and add the number 3 to the kernel line so it looks something like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda2 3 This will boot to runlevel 3, which doesn't activate the X server. Log in as root and then run the command system-config-display --reconfig This will allow you to set up your X server. I suspect that when Acer set up your machine, they had it hooked up to a monitor which is capable of a higher refresh rate or resolution than yours. Thomas
