At 12:35 AM -0500 12/1/06, aceofspades12491@xxxxxxx wrote: >Well you are correct, im fairly new to linux. >1. To answer your first question i did infact accept many of the defaults. >I only had the burned disc 1 and 2 and im not sure if thats of any help? >But i was able to install with the two by using the standards, but getting >rid of editors, and Joystick under gnome games. (i dont really know if you >have to get rid of joystick or not). >2. I set up about a 20 gig partition for FC and 1028 megs of swap for my >1024 mes of Ram. >3. It dual boots into windows Xp just fine, The graphics card works under >xp just as it's supposed to. >4. Ido get the text boot screen. >5. It seems as though it is trying to start the Xserver, but the monitor >then goes into sleep mode, and as an added bonus says frequency out of >range. >6. However it does not complete the boot cycle, or even get into the x >server. Its an analog 1600 by 1200 monitor. > >I did infact try what Robin suggested, but after the install fedora asks >you to set up firewalls, and account names, etc. Well needless to say that >didnt work. I am able to use a different pc to view this while viewing the >problem. As for bringin the monitor back to life, it did nothing and >proceeded to sit there and face an onslaught of my choice vulgarities.( >this is about the fourth time ive tried to install.) I am also able to >take the X1600 out, and use the onboard graphics to install, which it does >boot correctly and im able to get into fedora and play around. But having >purchased a pricey gfx card, and dual booting with windows, i dont want to >swap the card in and out every time i switch OS's. > >Sorry that was a bit long, but i appreciate the help immensely. >-Matt Have you booted to runlevel 3 (append 3 to the kernel command line in grub, also remove "rhgb quiet"), logged in as root, and run "system-config-display --reconfig"? For more on this sort of issue, google for "site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list display reconfig". -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
