On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:29 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: [...] > I missed your previous posts, maybe clicking real fast, but I have an > integrated video in the motherboard and I use OpenChrome driver. > > [olivares@localhost ~]$ su - > Password: > [root@localhost ~]# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE [...] Somewhere in there, I did hit a K8M890, but not with the CE. > [...] What I did to fix my situation was the > following: > > Change inittab:5 to 3, that is from level 5 to level 3 and then type > startx. Hmmm ... With mine, startx as user works *after* I've gone through all the screens Fedora gives you when it can't start X -- including running what appears identical to the display you get with system-config-display, and changing both the Settings and Hardware entries *back* to what I had when I shut down last. Why it doesn't keep them, as it always used to, I don't know. I couldn't make sense of what I found by searching inittab; so I'm probably missing something. I'm guessing that I could simply edit / etc/grub.conf, putting a 3 after the first kernel entry. Then it would boot into level 3; I could log in as user, and simply command startx. Is that right? Or, as a prior experiment, I could edit the kernel line from the grub boot-up splash, try init 3 that way, and only actually edit grub.conf if the experiment succeeds. > [...] I also > use Slax Linux on this machine and when the machine booted and logged in > automatically to X, the lines appeared, but then, I booted in text mode > and created a module for the OpenChrome drivers > > http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=713 Now I'm very confused, in part perhaps because I know nothing at all about slax. It looks to me as if that site is offering to download something to run under that OS, rather than Fedora. Not the case? > I started X with startx and the lines did not appear. Problem was > solved for me. I hope that this helps you with your problems. I can't imagine why startx would work immediately after logging in in text mode, without touching anything that affects the configuration of X; and it seems a strange, roundabout approach. But I'm willing to try it, if I understand aright what it is I'm to try. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers 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
