1. Modified /etc/X11/fs/config file. #no-listen = tcp 2. Modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "files" FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" EndSection 3. $startx 2004-06-01 (í) 12:55 -0400ì, Fred Nastos ìêë: > Hi, > > I am trying to get Fedora Core 2 working on the following system: > cpu: P4-2.8E > mb: ASUS P4S800D-E DLX S478 SIS655TX DDR > ram: DDR 2x512 MB > video: ATI RADEON 7000 64M AGP > > This will be a linux-only computer. Sorry for the long-winded > description below, but I am trying to give as much detail as > possible. > > The installation procedure went fine (though I have searched the > web and found that many have had trouble with the installation > on the ASUS 800-series mboards). But when I went for my first > reboot, the computer seemed to crash as soon as the boot > sequence started, that is immediately after the "Press 'I' to enter > interactive setup" message the screen went blank and the computer > froze (ctrl-alt-backspace did nothing). > > I got rid of the graphical boot loader by dropping "rhgb quiet" from > the grub boot paramaters and the boot sequence went well until > it came time to load X, at which point the computer crashed again. > A message flashed onto the screen before the screen went blank > but it was impossible to read. I then logged into single mode by > appending "single" to the boot parameters, and managed to get a > terminal. Looking through the file Xorg.0.log I found the error message: > > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I searched the web a little, and found that this had to do with the > xfs service not running. During the full boot up seqeunce, with > the deafult parameters passed to the kernel, it says > Starting xfs: [OK] > so maybe it is getting killed/stopped somehow? Anyway, when > I load up in single mode, xfs isn't started by default, so I started > it with > /etc/init.d/xfs start > And then I tried to run startx, which wouldn't because xauth > wasn't in my path. I guess root isn't supposed to start X? > After I put the /usr/X11R6/bin directory in my path and ran > startx, the system crashed again. I could not find a log file > though. > > I repeated everything above, and decided to run Xorg > instead of startx. This generated a log file, but the log > file was not very useful. It is ery short, and ends with > > (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) > (II) Module ABI versions: > X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 > X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 > X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 > X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 > X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 > (II) Loader running on linux > (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" > > And that's all there is in it. I'm stuck. Any help would be > much appreciated. > > Thanks. > >
