still nothing, tried a fresh install and X just will not display... period. On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:21, look what m jones wrote: > I upgraded from FC1 on my Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop today, install went > great, after reboot after all the messages init5 starts and nothing... > blank screen. I know that it is not locked up, I can CTL+ALT+F2 and login > all is working, so I change the default init to 3, reboot, fine... login, > startx... fails... I noticed there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf I read someone > did 'ln -s XF86Config xorg.conf' so I try that... nothing... still blank > screen. So I run 'X -configure' and that a new xorg.conf tried that, > nothing... > > I am getting nowhere fast... it seems that X is starting, it is just that > nothing can be seen, it is just a blank screen... > > any suggestions? > -- > michael jones > erleichda archiving > usa -- michael jones erleichda archiving usa