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. > > 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. >From Aaron Konstam: > 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. Logging in as root on level 3, I've tried the following things: 1. 'system-config-display --reconfig': 'Trying with ATI Mach 64' ... to a plain blue screen without any text ... back to text mode with the warning 'SESSION-MANAGER environment variable not defined'. I can't for the life of me figure out how to define it. 2. 'startx' leads to a small blue 'FC2' rectangle in the center of a dark screen, but nothing more 3 'gnome-session' leads to 'cannot open display' How do I get the gnome window manager to kick in? This is an old ABIT BM6, CEL400 system with an IBM 10.10 GB IDE/UATA hard disk and ATI XPERT@ PLAY 8MB AGP video card and I don't know what else is relevant. -Paul Optional reading: I'm trying, really. I always flounder for a few hours before writing to the list. Would I be better off using a commercial RH product instead of fedora? It seems like I'm not cut out for this!
