Stuck on run-level 3 :-(

[Paul Howarth]

Andoni wrote:
> I got the diagnostic information you spoke of and it was in two parts:
 > $ /sbin/lspci revealed that my card is an
 > VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82740 (i740) AGP Graphics 
Accelerator (rev 21).
> 
> and the startx command does not work.

In what way does it "not work"? I would expect:

$ startx &> x.output

to wait a while, write some output to the file x.output and then return 
to the shell prompt on your system (because X is broken). The 
information written to the x.output file is what we're after here.

> Another point: When I do the: init 5 command

Don't do this. It won't work until you've fixed your X configuration.

> Also, In my grub.conf on the kernel line I was advised to put a "nofb"
> parameter to solve an earlier problem. Could this be getting in the way now?
> It was a display problem that time also but the screen was black then.

Possibly, I don't know.

Paul.