On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:26 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > Thanks for the reply...there's an insane amount of main applications > updates availible via YUM...but is there a way I can just via yum > install the needed system updates? Thanks! > > On 3/12/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:11 -0800, Hex Star wrote: > > Hi, I've just installed Fedora Core 4 via text installer > because the > > graphic installer was destorted beyond use...and the main > GUI after > > installation is also distorted :-(..I've tried via rescue > mode to edit > > the X config and have tried changing the HorizSync and > VertRefresh to > > values mentioned by Windows and by Knoppix, neither of which > > worked...also tried changing the driver to svga as suggested > by > > Knoppix in its X config but that didn't work because Fedora > doesn't > > seem to have that display driver...the graphic card in > question is a > > Cirrus Logic GD544x and the monitor is a Dell V15x...don't > have the X > > config handy because my only access is via terminal (Knoppix > says it > > doesn't recognize the drives partition and thus can't mount > it :-( ) > > but can type it up by hand if you guys really need it to > help > > me...anyone have a working X config for this hardware setup? > Would > > greatly appreciate any help, thanks! > ---- > make sure that you do a yum update as root from command line > before you > fool around with it any more...the original installation for > FC-4 was > broken for certain video cards and the updates should fix > things for > you. > > After the updates...try 'system-config-display --reconfig' ---- there probably is but I wouldn't know which ones off the top of my head. If you had started the updates instead of asking the question, it would probably be well on its way to completion. Yes, there were an insane amount of updates for FC-4 but mostly because it was an aggressive release that needed a lot of updates to be stable. The payoff is, when the updates are finished installing, you should have a reasonably up-to-date and stable system. Craig
