Am Di, den 31.08.2004 schrieb Ram Kumar um 8:49: > - When installing it does not initialize the X window system > - I tried installing in text mode, then switching to X Windows, but it > fails > - When at text login prompt, it keeps refreshing the display in an > attempt to start X Windows system To avoid the flashing you may do the following: After turning on your machine at the first screen you see grub and a list of operating systems, in your case may be just on: Fedora. Move the selection bar to the Fedora line and press a Now you can edit the startup parameters. Add the letter S to the end of the line. Your system will startup in single user mode, which is a traditional text mode console. You may edit the file /etc/inittab and change the line id:5:initdefault: into id:3:initdefault: So the normal startup procedure will not start the xwindow system but just a text console login. Now you can try to fix the xwindow system without flickering. You can try to start xwindows by the command startx > - Gives some error related to VESA driver & says 'unable to start X > Windows system' > - I installed my last copy of RedHat 9, which works beautifully on the > same system > - Checked the settings from this install for VESA driver, monitor > type, display frequency, etc... & applied to FC2 x86 64, but it still > does not start X Windows As a first step you may try to automatically configure your graphics subsystem by system-config-display --reconfig It is a second try, maybe there went something wrong during installation. You can test your effort by the comand startx It it doesn't help, you should inspect the xwindow log file using less less /var/log/Xorg.0.log or may be additionally less /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old for error messages. Usually you get a clue what to change. Otherwise post it here together with information about your graphics hardware. Additionally you may compare the xwindows configuration files of your Fedora system and your RedHat system. Fedora: less /etc/X11/xorg.conf Red Hat less /etc/X11/XF86config (the Red Hat file name my be a little bit different, I just can't remember exactly, but you will recognise it). Good luck Peter
