On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:32:08AM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Greetings, > > I have FC4 dual booting with Windows XP on a new machine with my old > monitor. The FC4 installation from the CDs appeared to be successful. > The start-up of FC4 appears normal too -- the messages resemble those > which appear during the old FC3 boot with the services starting up > successfully -- until, I think, just before the Fedora login screen > should appear. Then a blizzard of messages zip by before I can read > them until a low resolution graphics screen appears with the option: "I > cannot start the X server. It is likely that it is not set up > correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the > problem?" Replying "yes" gives some sort of log that's not immediately > revealing to me -- again, too much information! Replying "no" brings up > a similar low-resolution screen that asks me if I want to set the X > windows display. Replying "yes" to that brings up a familiar-looking > screen resolution widget. When I set the screen resolution to 1280 X > 1024 (which works fine on this monitor for Windows XP now and did work > on the old box/monitor combination running FC3) the screen goes blank > and the system appears to hang. But after I hit enter a few times the > login screen appears normally. > FC4 seems to be running OK and I have "save system setup" activated but > I'm still having to go through this routine whenever I boot. Something > must be set wrong, somewhere.... OK, it probably has something to do > with the way X windows is interacting with the graphics and monitor. > Any suggestions as to how to proceed -- or where to look for clues and > what to look for -- would be most appreciated. > > Jerry > I would try to set the display with system-config-display before I give up. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
