Having trouble getting GUI to work on HP NetServer LH3R

Hex Star hexstar at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 01:26:52 UTC 2006


Thanks for the reply...there's an insane amount of main applications updates
availible via YUM...but is there a way I can just via yum install the needed
system updates? Thanks!

On 3/12/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:11 -0800, Hex Star wrote:
> > Hi, I've just installed Fedora Core 4 via text installer because the
> > graphic installer was destorted beyond use...and the main GUI after
> > installation is also distorted :-(..I've tried via rescue mode to edit
> > the X config and have tried changing the HorizSync and VertRefresh to
> > values mentioned by Windows and by Knoppix, neither of which
> > worked...also tried changing the driver to svga as suggested by
> > Knoppix in its X config but that didn't work because Fedora doesn't
> > seem to have that display driver...the graphic card in question is a
> > Cirrus Logic GD544x and the monitor is a Dell V15x...don't have the X
> > config handy because my only access is via terminal (Knoppix says it
> > doesn't recognize the drives partition and thus can't mount it :-( )
> > but can type it up by hand if you guys really need it to help
> > me...anyone have a working X config for this hardware setup? Would
> > greatly appreciate any help, thanks!
> ----
> make sure that you do a yum update as root from command line before you
> fool around with it any more...the original installation for FC-4 was
> broken for certain video cards and the updates should fix things for
> you.
>
> After the updates...try 'system-config-display --reconfig'
>
> Craig
>
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