On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:36:37 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote: [....] >> > Beartooth: Have you tried the vesa driver? It worked with my nVidia >> > laptop card when nothing else would (when F8 was released), except >> > that it wouldn't turn off the backlight. I haven't seen any progress >> > on that bug (#351661) since I filed it last October. >> >> Vesa driver? I've seen the word during boot-ups on at least one >> machine; but since it means nothing to me, I don't even recall which >> machine. I'll be glad to try that or anything else I can; how do I do >> it? > > I believe you can do this: > > When you see the GRUB splash screen on boot, press a key. > > > Select > the top kernel line of the options offered and type 'e', select > the kernel line and type 'e'. Append 'video=vesa' at the end of > the line. Type [Enter], type 'b'. Will do, shortly. As you can see in detail in the thread on "X doesn't start," at the moment I have that machine actually online; I've just scp'd all of /home/btth/* onto this one (my #2), deleting like a madman at the same time; I want to try to get /home/btth/.*, too, if I can, before I reboot #1. Once that's done, I have a fallback: I can find some way to wipe the whole Fedora hard drive without wiping the XP drive, install F8 onto it cold, and scp the files I want back. Ahh, insurance! > Then X should detect your video card as vesa, which is the most generic > sort of interface. Aha -- makes lots of sense. And I would of course prefer, vastly, to get F9 running properly. Maybe that *can* be done. In which case, of course, I just delete the whole gleanings folder (or burn it to DVD, file it away, and then delete it). > If the machine boots, you can boot in runlevel 3 (edit the kernel line > in GRUB as above, but instead of "video=vesa" add "3". Hmmm ... I realize edits in grub are temporary; so the "video=vesa" won't be there, right? > Then you'll get > a virtual console to log into. Id est, a simple white on black command line, right? > Then (as root) run > > system-config-display --reconfig > > and see if that helps. Oho! I didn't know that command had that option. Will do, with bells on. Stay tuned. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
