<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for response, am using fedora 9 installed from DVD running default Gnome VGA compatible controller: intel corp82845G/GL{Brookdale-G}/GE chipset Intergrated Graphic device some of the log messages i got (though i didnt understand them) are: <ul><li> PCI interupt link (LNKD) X0 disabled</li></ul><ul><li>prefetch window disabled</li><li>Avahi-daemon(2120): Successifully dropped root privileges.</li><li> warning:-No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider install nss-mdns</li><li>Acpid connected from 2222(0;0) debug: gdmserver started X server </li></ul> /var/log/Xorg.0.log gave me "permission denied" i also tried init 3 thing and it gave gave me the X but with different settings thanks alot atleast i have an X. am still learning --- On Tue, 7/28/09, stan <gryt2@q.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: stan <gryt2@q.com> Subject: Re: Blank Display To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:46 AM <div class="plainMail">On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Morris Buffalo <<a ymailto="mailto:manguyia@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=manguyia@yahoo.com">manguyia@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: > Am new to fedora and i have a problem. when i start it loads ok up > until when i login then the screen goes blank (whitish-greyish) but i > can still see the cursor. How can i resolve this???? please help It sounds like your window manager is not starting correctly. Could you provide more information? What version of Fedora? How did you install it? DVD, from LiveCD, network, ... Which window manager are you using? Gnome, KDE, XFCE, ... Do you know what video hardware you have? What driver you are using? You can look at this by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2, logging in as root, and running the command less /var/log/messages q to exit Look for the initialization of your video hardware at startup. You might see error messages here as well. Are there any error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? You can look at this by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2, logging in as root, and running the command less /var/log/Xorg.0.log q to exit As root, from the same terminal, you can also run init 3 or telinit 3 which will take you to text only login, turning off X Xorg -configure This will put an xorg.conf.new in your home directory. To try it, run cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak1 cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Then run the command startx or init 5 or telinit 5 which will restart X with your new configuration. Does this change the behavior of your X session after you log in? -- fedora-list mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>