On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:44, Mike Klinke wrote: > On Sunday 26 December 2004 11:10, cfk wrote: > > I seem to have fubar'ed the display settings as I get a bunch of > > vertical lines after the KDE window manager boots. The system > > displays correctly during some boot screens, somewhat > > inconsistently. For instance, I was able to fill out the > > firstboot screens including setting the display to 1600x1200 and > > "thousands of colors" (16bit). > > The i810 video driver is broken with the original FC3 distribution > but the latest xorg packages have gone some distance to fixing the > problems. After you boot up in run level 3 update your system with > the latest xorg packages and it may fix your problems. One > work-around for many of us with the original FC3 driver is to add > to the driver section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf the following line: > > Option "noaccel" > > > I suspect that I merely need to incantate inside the XF86-config > > file, but I cannot seem to get a terminal window without X. > > Alt-Ctrl-F1 doesnt work anymore on this particular system, and I > > dont remember how to tell grub how to boot to run level 1 or 3. > > At the grub selection screen press the letter "e", navigate to the > kernel line and press the "e" again, append the number "3" to the > end of the line to enter runlevel 3. > > There is quite a bit about this problem in both the archives of this > list, the fedora-test list and bugzilla. > > Regards, Mike Klinke Dear Mike: Thank you very much for helping me through that one. I was successful with the "3" at the end of the kernel line in grub (the middle one). I can now boot the system, run X and changed the desktop to my preferred KDE with Option "NoAccell" in the "Device" section. A second question, if I may. Would I expect that a later xorg-x11-libs... file be a "yum" kinda thing and if so, how would I tell the version of a "yum" file before doing "yum update" or "yum install xorg"? With Respect, Charles Krinke
