xorg-font problem

[Jim Cornette]

Correction, level 1 not 5

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Chethiya K Ranaweera wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I have a laptop with FC4 onstalled. Recently I updated the kernel and
>> it also updated udev. Now when I try to boot my screen is completly
>> out of focus that I can not access anything. I tried to boot into
>> runlevel 1 and use stratx and I got a xio fixed font problem. Does
>> anyone know how to fix it? Thanks
>>
>> -- 
>> CR
>>
> 
> I never tried starting X in runlevel 1. Have you tried starting X from 
> runlevel 3? You would type startx from your logged in user terminal.
> 
> Level 1 is single user mode and I believe there are not many services 
> started. I know network is not started without user intervn. The font 
> server and other services needed for X are probably not available in 
> level 1. I assume that you could start the services in level 1 with a 
> lot of knowledge regarding font servers, x servers and such.
> 
> Jim
> 


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