Fedora Video Card Problem

[Hadders]

Yeap, I'd say that X is outputting a resolution that is unsupported by 
your monitor. It's unlikely that there's a overdrive on the refresh, but 
it could be.

Okay, put the video card back into the beastie, you're right, there's no 
point in swapping it in and out, wear and tear on the pin-outs, not to 
mention the "whoops I dropped it scenario".

Boot up again and wait for the monitor to die....
Can you CTRL+ALT+F1 and get to a terminal?
I'll assume you can...
login as root, you know the password...
type>  cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | less
That's the broken vertical bar (under unix we call that a pipe) 
character between the end of the cat statement and the "less" word 
(there's a space between each of those). That's found with the shift key 
on and on the same key as the backslash (\), usually.
What we're saying is "catenate" the output of this file and pipe that 
output to "less" a program that allows us to view it more easily.  Once 
in less, press space to go to the next page, use page up/page down and 
press "q" to quit.

You're looking for three sections. They are : Monitor, Device, Screen.
Can you please dump those back into a reply mail.

Hang in there...




aceofspades12491 at aim.com wrote:
> Well you are correct, im fairly new to linux.
> 1. To answer your first question i did infact accept many of the 
> defaults. I only had the burned disc 1 and 2 and im not sure if thats 
> of any help? But i was able to install with the two by using the 
> standards, but getting rid of editors, and Joystick under gnome games. 
> (i dont really know if you have to get rid of joystick or not).
> 2. I set up about a 20 gig partition for FC and 1028 megs of swap for 
> my 1024 mes of Ram.
> 3. It dual boots into windows Xp just fine, The graphics card works 
> under xp just as it's supposed to.
> 4. Ido get the text boot screen.
> 5. It seems as though it is trying to start the Xserver, but the 
> monitor then goes into sleep mode, and as an added bonus says 
> frequency out of range.
> 6. However it does not complete the boot cycle, or even get into the x 
> server. Its an analog 1600 by 1200 monitor.
>
> I did infact try what Robin suggested, but after the install fedora 
> asks you to set up firewalls, and account names, etc. Well needless to 
> say that didnt work. I am able to use a different pc to view this 
> while viewing the problem. As for bringin the monitor back to life, it 
> did nothing and proceeded to sit there and face an onslaught of my 
> choice vulgarities.( this is about the fourth time ive tried to 
> install.) I am also able to take the X1600 out, and use the onboard 
> graphics to install, which it does boot correctly and im able to get 
> into fedora and play around. But having purchased a pricey gfx card, 
> and dual booting with windows, i dont want to swap the card in and out 
> every time i switch OS's.
>
> Sorry that was a bit long, but i appreciate the help immensely.
> -Matt
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