On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 02:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > I have a problem with installing F9, which I think can't be > hardware. > > I'm trying to shift my #1 machine over from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. > I got it out from behind the KVM switch, and did the install with direct > connections to the peripherals, so that it could negotiate with them any > way it needed. This worked fine with my #2. > > #1, after what seemed a normal upgrade, however, is so far off > that I just get a brief little box on the monitor saying "Input signal > out of range. Change settings to 1680x1050 - 60 Hz" (which I think comes > from the monitor). > > With RIPLinuX, I can edit what seems to be the machine's own > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (not RIPLinux's -- I hope and believe). I've tried > that a couple ways, trying to clone what #2 (running F9) and #3 (running > F8) have -- the hard way, from behind the KVM switch. > > I would much rather ssh into #1, or simply scp a config file > over. But, although RIPLinux will make #1 connect to the router, it then > refuses ssh and scp from the rest of the LAN. > > Nor have I yet managed to get it to boot from its own hard drive > into init3. I can hit "I" for the interactive boot, but no matter how > fast I type init3, it still goes to that promptless demand from the > monitor. > > With RIPLinux, if it gets to its useless, promptless display, I > can hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get a root prompt; but with the machine > booted from the hard drive, that fails. > > #1 machine did fine with this monitor (an HP w2207h), twice, > running F8 both times; so do #2 and #3, albeit without actually using > 1680x1050. (They think it's 1280x1024, and one of them uses 1440x900 > under that (!), but it's close enough for the monitor itself to > accommodate the difference by stretching. ---- edit the grub boot (press 'e') and then edit the 'kernel' line by adding '3' at the end to boot in runlevel 3 I would probably recommend that you simply run 'system-config-display --reconfig' Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
