On Friday 21 May 2004 00:09, look what m jones wrote: > still nothing, tried a fresh install and X just will not display... period. There are no errors in the logs, it seems that X is starting, but it just blanks teh screen and I see nothing... this is happening with teh grphical boot and the graphical login after boot... I have to turn all that off to use the system. I can't find any reference to a similar problem getting fixed... and it seems other Dell laptops with similar graphic cards/screens work fine. I will have ot reinstall FC1 I guess. > > 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 -- michael jones erleichda archiving usa
