On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:56:37 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:20:14 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > [...] >> I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I boot >> into runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into runlevel 3, >> log in as root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just fine. I've >> described the problem here: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448340 > > I'll take a look at that shortly, thanks. > > Meanwhile, I did manage to get #1 as well as #2 machine to run > F9; but unless/until I hear better from Frank Murphy, I have to boot > both in init3, log in as root, and play with the X configuration first > by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then by running system-config-display. > That gives me a weird error message, something to the effect that the > connection to the Xserver is temporarily unavailable. But if I then log > root out and my userid in, I can command startx, and it takes a while > but works. > > Next time I have to shut one of them down, or sooner if I get to > it, I'll try your way instead; it certainly sounds shorter and easier. > And, come to think of it, last time I did mine, I didn't change anything > with either my editor or my config command; just ran them, logged root > out and userid in. [....] One relevant and one almost surely relevant discovery. My #1 hardware (with the VIA card) didn't like the xorg.conf file that Frank Murphy sent -- not quite; but almost. I made three copies, with changes in each; first with "vesa" replacing "openchrome" as the driver; second, with the resolution choked all the way back from 1680x1050, which the monitor demands, to 1280x1024, which I know both machines #1 and #2 can handle; third with both those changes. With the first, the vesa version, I didn't just boot, but took the Persson Precaution : edited grub to boot to init 3, logged in as root, and simply commanded "init 5." That worked so well I haven't tried anything else yet, not even booting without the Persson Precaution. I have full use of the whole 1680x1050 resolution, and have had neither any sort of display breakdowns, nor any other trouble. I look forward to getting #2 (with the nvidia card) to do as well some day. Since then, yum update on at least one machine (I wish I could remember which! But I may have spotted the like on only one but gotten it on both...) -- on one machine, I say, yum update has brought at least a dozen X11 items, about half containing the substring "-drv-"; I *think* those must be drivers, right? Has anybody else tried any of them with the HP w2207h yet? Would it be a good idea just to run system-config-display again? Perhaps try the list of HP flat panel monitors, which didn't include this one last time I looked? Or run system-config-display only after editing a particular one of them into xorg.conf? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert 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
