trouble shooting Fedora Core 3 installation

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 19:45 -0700, Stephen King wrote:
> Thanks Kam
> I'm new at this and not sure where to start.
> I am running a Dell PIII 1.1 GHz with 512 MbRam 2 hard drives and 
> integrated audio/video.  The video chip is Intel 810
> I think the problem is with my video resolution.  I inadvertently set it 
> too high for my card.  I think the maximum resolution is 1248x1024
> I dont know enough about this to change the resolution via a terminal 
> and when I try to bring up system settings, the monitor goes wacky.  I 
> suppose I could just reinstall Fedora and hope I can change the 
> resolution in the process??
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with Linux, you shouldn't have to reboot for most stuff, let alone re-
install.

Press Control-Alt-F2
login as root
type...

telinit 3
system-config-display --reconfig

When you get the resolution to where you want...
telinit 5

Craig