On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:38:17PM -0400, allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thank you Charles. I've been spending most of my time researching > possible compatibility/driver issues with my sata and other > controllers. But in booting to run level 3 at your suggestion I can > do everything I want (for now), so it seems that the fundamental > problem I am having is with X. (BTW, the graphical boot loader > doesn't seem to be an issue. I can boot to multi-user non-graphical > mode whether rhgb is included in the grub kernel line, omitted or > set to "quiet.") Glad you made some progress and narroed things down. > > So it seems I need to bone up on X.org, find the counterpart to > /etc/X11/XF86Config, On upgrades, it's the same; don't know about fresh installs. > adjust the settings to those suggested for my > monitor (Planar 1910M, which *is* detected) or as root run system-config-xx where xx is something suitable for X. Try tab completion to get it. (I don't have an FC2 box handy right now.) > and then try a graphical boot. Or try "startx", which will launch X for you. > I'll search for pertinent threads but > if anyone has encountered a similar problem I'd appreciate some > time-saving advice. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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