On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:55:19AM -0700, Paul Murtaugh wrote: > > 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. > I am not sure why you are using a --reconfig option on the command. Or another tack is to move xorg.conf to a backup file and then run the command with out any options. It has worked for me. -- ======================================================================= Everyone talks about apathy, but no one ____does anything about it. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
