I connected my former CRT to the new PC, and then I got a GUI screen -
sort of. It is distorted and messy, and the cursor arrow is not always
obeying the mouse, and it leaves "marks" in the background color like
an eraser in a drawing tool.
It obviously needs some configuration.
I managed via <alt>F1 to open the menu, and I tried out some screen
settings and screwed up the screen by chosing the wrong m x n setting.
Then it is not easy to get back since the screen is unreadable. The
NVIDIA is now set to vesa.
So I got a small step ahead, but not much.
I cannot even remember which config file is containing the
n x m setting - such problems are very seldom, so I forget.
But as far as I can see now, the whole thing boils down to a screen
config problem, so I would be grateful for some pointers in the right
direction from those of you who have installed F 9.
Regards
PAR
Per Anton Ronning wrote:
I was asked not to hijack another thread, instead I ought to start a
new one, which I now do. Sorry - my mistake.
I now reply to both Mikkel and Alan:
Mikkel:
> It didn't halt - it switched to the GUI display, but > your monitor
could not display the video it was
> receiving.
OK. But the installation itself was GUI-based, so that must have
confused me into thinking that X windows was working.
Alan:
Odd.. when you say "does not find" what occurs ?
THIS HAPPENS:
from root: setup
The box "Choose a Tool" comes up, at the bottom I find "X configuration"
Running this option I see a flash of the text "Cannot find X ..:"
before the screen goes black and "out of range" appears.
Esc brings me back to the toolbox.
from root - startx:
No devices detected
No screens found
and a message telling "unable to connect to X server"
Per Anton Ronning wrote:
I bought the August '08 issue of Linux Format with an F 9
DVD.
I have also bought a new machine (made to order by an internet based
vendor, and no op.sys. installed)
The installation procedure seemed to go OK, except for one thing: I
was not asked to create a user account.
When rebooting after the "Congratulations" screen, the PC stopped.
("Enabling /etc/fstab swaps" was the last [OK] message before it
halted.)
My 22" CHIMEI CMV223D LCD screen went black and the message "out of
range" appeared, according to the vendor this means that it has got a
signal which it is unable to process.
The display driver is NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT.
It didn't halt - it switched to the GUI display, but your monitor
could not display the video it was receiving.
From the Linux Format forum I got the tip to boot at runlevel 3,
which I did, and then I reached the login prompt. Since the
installation procedure did not ask me to specify a user name (blank
was not recognized) I logged on to root. which went OK. Now things
seemed normal in character mode.
I typed "setup" and got a setup which included X.
I tried to configure, but the display driver models did not include
CHIMEI or CMV223D anywhere, so then I thought I would have to try
at random.
The display driver is for the video card, NOT the monitor.
I did, and that went wrong. Now it does not find X11 at all.
(Lesson: Do not run experiments at random)
I guess I can take care of this by reinstalling F 9, if everything
else fails.
Boot into run level 3, and run setup again, or run system-config-display.
Does anyone know why I am not asked to create a user account?
That part of setup is normally down on first boot, but you did not see
it. You can use the useradd command to add one from the command line.
THere is a GUI to do it as well, byt you have to have X working.
Mikkel
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