thanks a lot thomas. that was exactly the problem. it works now. venkat On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:42:34 -0600, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Venkatesh Madhipatla" <msvenkatesh@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:12 PM > Subject: problem with fedora 3 > > > hi, > > > > i have a hp pavillion celeron pc. > > i was having red hat 7.2 previously and it was working fine. now i > > upgraded it to fedora 3. The installation went without any problem. > > But when i boot the machine, it accepts the user and password and then > > nothing comes up. i see just vertical stripes in the display. i guess > > it's not working properly with graphics card. > > > > i have windows 98 in another partition and it works fine. By the way, > > how does it accept the user and password in a graphical interface if > > it has problems with graphics card? > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > thanks > > venkat > > Sorry about the premature sending of the previous message. As I was > saying... > > Sounds like you are booting to graphical mode, and your video settings are > messed up. I would boot to runlevel 3 and reset my video card settings. > > To do that, reboot. When you see the Grub menu, hit "e" to enter edit mode. > Then > choose the line with the kernel in it (it will look similar to: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > Hit "e" again to edit this line. Take out the "rhgb quiet" part and add "3" > so it looks similar to this: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ 3 > > Then "escape," then "b" to boot the system. > > Once you've booted, log in as root and run the command > > /usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig > > You can set the display settings to something that will work better with > your hardware. Also, I have heard a lot of people griping about the "rhgb > quiet" stuff in /boot/grub/grub.conf. You might want to take that out > permanently. > > Thomas > >
