Cannot start Fedora 2.

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Richard E Miles wrote:

> > Soo Sip Boon wrote:
> > 
> > > when i want to start boot, my monitor go blank. i
> > > never success for any startup. I was tried to boot
> > > from rescue disk and used vim to do changes on
> > > etc\X11\Xorg.conf but seem the vim have problem to do
> > > edit. in the vim mode i cannot move the cursor up and
> > > down, delete things.
> > 
> > Can you not do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into text mode?
> > If you can't then you should edit /etc/inittab
> > to start in runlevel 3 rather than 5.
> > Then see if system-config-display will get your monitor working.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Timothy Murphy
> 
> Sorry tim when you launch system-config-display from level 3 it initates X windows and since he gets a blank screen it wont work.

If it launches a 16 color 640x480 basic VGA version, it might.  It is 
possible that the Xconfiguration has the wrong information in it.
-- 
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