Elvio Caruana wrote:
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.
*He said he can't boot. Thus he can't edit inittab*
The easiest way is at the fedora splash menu press "a"
then add " 3 " to the end of the line and boot to run level 3.
Now you can do what is needed to get X to run, simply use "startx" to test it and "ctr-alt-bksp" to kill the server for the test.
Once it is running properly just reboot back to the graphics mode.
The suggestion above, by editing /etc/inittab will make it so you can boot to text mode all the time, until you change it back.
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.
