I have started a new thread because it's not really the same problem,
but this is really a spin-off of "Installing Fedora 8 on Intel Dual Core".
The reason why I had a black screen were, apparently, more than one.
The xorg.conf wasn't quite right. I ran "X -configure" and that was
better. Still I had to change the driver from intel to vesa. Then there
was a problem with some lock files in the /tmp directory. The problem
was cause by me deleting and recreating the user (for a reason that's
unrelated to the problem).
Anyway, I haven't tried rebooting yet, but if I login and type startx
everything is fine.
However, I get some messages which are all warnings but I don't like and
I would like to know from who has more experience that me what to do
with them. I ssh-ed from my laptop and in that terminal typed startx. On
the monitor attached to the server GNOME comes up, but on the terminal I
have the following
[giulio@localhost ~]$ startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/giulio/.serverauth.27917
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Fedora 8 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 #1
SMP Wed Mar 12 16:51:49 EDT 2008 x86_64
Build Date: 14 March 2008
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-44.fc8
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 25 19:42:02 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module already built-in
(WW) VESA(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x7b0000)
SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/27958,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/27958
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
/home/giulio/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms: Failed to open file
'/home/giulio/.metacity/sessions/default1.ms': No such file or directory
11
** (nm-applet:28009): WARNING **: nm_object_get_property: Error getting
'WirelessEnabled' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
** (nm-applet:28009): WARNING **: nm_object_get_property: Error getting
'WirelessHardwareEnabled' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
** (gnome-panel:27989): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection
with GDM: No such file or directory
