On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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 Aha! no init. Worked fine; many thanks! I added the 3 in /etc/ grub.conf, to make sure I don't forget. > I would probably recommend that you simply run 'system-config-display > --reconfig' First, I made #2 try to scr its own xorg.conf to #1; or #1 to scp it from #2. Scp still failed. But ssh succeeded; so I now have #2 (whose name is hbsk) logged in as root on #1 (whose name is TopBlack) -- so that I can click back and forth on #2 between newsreader and ssh session. I see this : ===== ===== [btth@hbsk ~]$ ssh 192.168.0.3 btth@xxxxxxxxxxx's password: Last login: Thu Jun 12 13:28:04 2008 from 192.168.0.8 Can't open display [btth@TopBlack ~]$ su - Password: [root@TopBlack ~]# system-config-display --reconfig ===== ===== With neither a response nor a return to prompt. I *think* that means it's hung, right? Probably because of the KVM machine being in the way? I think that means my next move is to shut everything down, pull #1 (which should now boot to init3) out from behind the KVM switch, plug it directly into the peripherals, boot it up, and run system-config- display --reconfig again on it (a command for which I thank you; I didn't know anything like it existed. 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 & 3 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
