Black window after proper installation.

[Andrea Giuliano]

I strongly recommend you to boot in single user mode, or at least 
runlevel 3 (no graphics). To do this, at grub prompt press "a" for 
"append", and insert "linux 1" or "linux 3" at the beginning of the line 
that will be shown to you. Then press ESC to go back to the usual grub 
menu and press ENTER, or just wait for the countdown.

Then, as root or as a normal user if you running level 3, try "startx" 
at a command line.

If you still get a black screen, try C-A-Backspace: this should kill the 
X server. Then have a look at messages in the console: if you see some 
row as "Fatal:...", you could at least figure out what's going wrong.

X logs also could be of help. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log or such.

Also, explain what you mean with "and PC stops doing anything". Do the 
keyboard led turn on and off when you press CAPS and such. If leds' 
state cannot be changed, try searching in the mailing list archive for 
"X freezes" or something like that: your X server has surely freezed!

That's all I can say at present.

iLych wrote:
> I've installed Fedora Core 2. I choose Full installation .
> And what do I get after an hour of installing process.
> A nice loader *Grub*. Then some invitation of Fedora Core 2. Then
> Linux entering graphic mode and .... I had  black screen (and PC stops
> doing anything).
> I had:
> Accelerator:ATI Radeon 9200
> Monitor: LF F700P
> 
> What's not Right?

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Andrea Giuliano, Ph. D.
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