Booting to run level 3 but still video fails?

[Andoni]

Card is a "JetWay" and is a AGP card.

Trying to get more details...

Andoni.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Kosin" <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Booting to run level 3 but still video fails?


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> Andoni wrote:
> 
> | Hello,
> |  
> | I am booting my newly installed FC3 box at initlevel 3 but still
> | after the GRUB screens the video fails.
> | I am seeing the initlevel in inittab:
> |  
> | In inittab the first line reads:
> |  
> | id:3:initdefault:
> |  
> | Could the video still be failing even though is is booting to
> | command line?
> | When I attach a brand new Dell 19" monitor it boots up no problem to
> | command line but with my 15" monitor it fails!
> |  
> | Thanks in advance for any recommends,
> |  
> | Andoni.
> 
> Andoni,
> 
> Sounds like a video card problem.  What brand of video card are you
> using?  Is is a built in kind (built and comes with the motherboard),
> an AGP card, a PCI card, or an ISA card?  Which manufacturer?  ATI,
> NVidia, etc....
> 
> Text mode should work on any card, which is what run level 3 gets you to.
> 
> James Kosin
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