Charles, When X starts and fails, press CRTL+ALT+F1 to go to console mode. Log in as root, then edit /etc/inittab with your favourite editor. Find the line id:5:initdefault: and change it to id:3:initdefault: and reboot. You probably didn't know that you can go to a console by CTL+ALT+F[1-6] .. and that will solve you many problems. On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:11, Charles Landau wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 1 on an off-brand PC. (It's a > "Great Quality PC" from Fry's Electronics.) Apparently the > installation process mis-identifies my video hardware, because as > soon as it tries to start X Windows, the screen goes blank (or, if I > connect a more intelligent monitor, it says "Input signal out of > range"). > > By the way, the video hardware is on the motherboard, which is an > Elitegroup L7VMM3. The documentation provided is sketchy, but the > computer came with Lindows 4.5 installed; it was using a "savage" > video driver for X Windows and works fine. > > I'm thinking that if I could boot Fedora without having it start X > Windows, I could run enough to explore the X configuration and > experiment with changing it to try to get it to work with my > hardware. I'm hoping there's a generic video driver that will work > OK. (I don't care about the video hardware's fancy 2D and 3D > graphics.) So how do I keep X Windows from starting? I can *install* > in text mode, but I don't know how to stay in text mode when booting.
