On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:43:00AM -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:07 -0700, Paul Murtaugh wrote: > > I turned off the rhgb option and can now see all of the > > services starting up, without any problems. I then briefly > > see a text login prompt (which apparently isn't functional), > > followed by a dark screen with hourglass, when normally I'd > > get the graphical login screen. My only option at this > > point is to turn off the computer. > > > > Help?! > > > > Thanks > > -Paul > > > > On 4/13/05, Paul Murtaugh <murtaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > It would get to the 'Welcome to Fedora' screen, and > > > then go blank with the hourglass -- as you usually see > > > before the various services get started. But it would go > > > no further; every so often the screen would refresh, but > > > the blank screen with hourglass would re-appear, ad > > > infinitum. It doesn't get to the screen with the progress > > > bar and 'Show details' option, so I have no idea how to > > > begin debugging this problem. > > > > Turn off the rhgb kernel option. > > > > Some details about the hardware might help get some resolution to the > problem. > > In the mean time: Try booting to runlevel 3, by appending a 3 to the > end of the kernel command line in grub. The start up process will stop > at the text login. Login as root and run startx, hopefully one of the > many messages that appear may point to some error. It might help to > pipe the startx output to a file. > > Is this an integrated graphics adapter. If so, make sure the memory you > (and/or X) think is allocated to it really is. > > Bob... Before trying startx I would use the system-config-display command to configure your xorg.conf file. What you describe is the classic "display not properly configured" symptom. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
