I have a monitor and/or video card problem on FC5
Anthony Messina
amessina at messinet.com
Thu Jul 6 05:26:30 UTC 2006
Jack Gates wrote:
> I have been running FC2 since it was initially released. Only now have I
> decided to upgrade to FC5. I was new to Linux when I set up FC2. I have not
> set up or upgraded to a new OS since that time. I am still a newbee to
> setting up and configuring Linux and Fedora.
>
> I cannot get the GUI to display. The system boots up at the command prompt
> and asks for the login at the same.
>
> I have a ViewSonic VG800 monitor and an ATI 9600 Pro video card. The mother
> board is an ABIT IS7
>
> The installation could only be done using "linux text", I figured then I was
> going to have a problem with the GUI.
>
> I had a similar problem after the installation when I installed FC2.
>
> Here is what my xorg.conf file has in it
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0
> VenderName "Monitor Vender"
> ModelName "VG800-2"
> DisplaySize 360 290
> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync Values to use DDC:
> HoriSync 30.0 - 83.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "radeon"
> VenderName "Videocard vendor"
> BroadName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> EndSection
>
> I was not able to find anything on the Fedora site and Google did not turn up
> much.
>
> My FC2 install has worked fine since I got passed this problem about two years
> or so ago. I was able to get the GUI to actually work during the install of
> FC2. I had to tell FC2 to use a generic monitor and video card for the GUI
> to work on boot up of the OS. This time I did not get any option that would
> let me do that. Can some one help by telling me where I can find the
> solution to get the GUI working? I have no idea where to look or what to do
> to resolve this.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
in your /etc/inittab file, look for the following:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
if your installation has "id:3:initdefault:" you're booting into text mode.
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