On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:54 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> > It's an interesting question that I don't have an answer to, why the
> > rhgb invocation of X fails where the post-boot one succeeds. What is
> > your video card?
> >
> >
> Some more info. Even though I have taken the two option off, I still
> have a black monitor. However I can ssh from my laptop, so it's not that
> the server is not booting up. A friend suggested that it might be
> something to do with the frequency, maybe Fedora is trying to optimizing
> but the monitor doesn't support it. Do you know where I can check what
> the current settings are?
If you aren't using X (graphical boot or graphical login or startx from
command line), then I think the display is handled by the kernel and
there is no file containing the settings.
In X, definitions are in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
The rhgb option in /etc/grub.conf runs the graphical boot. Graphical
login is controlled by /etc/inittab, in particular, the line
id:5:initdefault:
If you change the 5 to 3 on that line, you will boot to command-line
mode. Log in and run startx. You can shift back to your login console
with <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>. See if there are any error reports on the
console. Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log
to see if there are errors.
>
> On your question, it should be an Intel GMA 950. but that doesn't mean
> much to me. Do you want me to check something specific? Let me know.
I don't know much about the Intel drivers, so I won't be much more help.
>
> Giulio
>
>
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