<pre style="margin: 0em;">>David Vanfleet writes: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to get Fedora core 6 installed on my system and I'm having >> some >> problems. I got through the initial installation, got to the part where >> it >> tells me to remove the media and reboot the system to continue. When the >> system reboots it locks up at the time that X windows starts (or shortly >> after). I see the "X" curser for only a moment then it goes away and I >> get >> a blank screen and nothing else. I then booted up the system in "rescue" >> mode and manually started X Windows without any problems (running >> startx). >> I'm upgrading this system from Fedora Core 4, which has been running >> without problems for some time. >> >> Any ideas what could be happening here? Any help here would be >> appreciated.</pre> Generally, X crashes either because of mouse or video configuration. FC6 uses a minimalist xorg.conf by default, and loads everything automatically. If it works, good, otherwise you have to change it. I would boot using any live distribution not based on xorg 7.1 (FC5, systemrescue-cd, knoppix, etc...) and try to change xorg.conf. If you use a LCD, do not connect it using a VGA port. Preferably, use a real CRT while fixing xorg.conf. I still have the xorg.conf generated when I installed FC6 from scratch. Very small indeed, but completely different from the one I use now. /Paulo Roma. # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection