problem with fedora 3

[Venkatesh Madhipatla]

thanks a lot thomas. that was exactly the problem. it works now.

venkat


On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:42:34 -0600, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Venkatesh Madhipatla" <msvenkatesh at gmail.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:12 PM
> Subject: problem with fedora 3
> 
> > hi,
> >
> > i have a hp pavillion celeron pc.
> > i was having red hat 7.2 previously and it was working fine. now i
> > upgraded it to fedora 3. The installation went without any problem.
> > But when i boot the machine, it accepts the user and password and then
> > nothing comes up. i see just vertical stripes in the display. i guess
> > it's not working properly with graphics card.
> >
> > i have windows 98 in another partition and it works fine. By the way,
> > how does it accept the user and password in a graphical interface if
> > it has problems with graphics card?
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > thanks
> > venkat
> 
> Sorry about the premature sending of the previous message.  As I was
> saying...
> 
> Sounds like you are booting to graphical mode, and your video settings are
> messed up.  I would boot to runlevel 3 and reset my video card settings.
> 
> To do that, reboot.  When you see the Grub menu, hit "e" to enter edit mode.
> Then
> choose the line with the kernel in it (it will look similar to:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> 
> Hit "e" again to edit this line.  Take out the "rhgb quiet" part and add "3"
> so it looks similar to this:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ 3
> 
> Then "escape," then "b" to boot the system.
> 
> Once you've booted, log in as root and run the command
> 
> /usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig
> 
> You can set the display settings to something that will work better with
> your hardware.  Also, I have heard a lot of people griping about the "rhgb
> quiet" stuff in /boot/grub/grub.conf.  You might want to take that out
> permanently.
> 
> Thomas
> 
>