fedora installation problems

[Paul Howarth]

jim phelps wrote:
> Im having problem installing FC4, maybe someone can
> help.
> 
> I have been using FC2 with no problems.
> I installed FC4 from a set of CDs from Linuxcd.org.
> Installation went OK, no problems.
> 
> I prefer to boot to a text based 'console', then start
> the X system and KDE using 'startx'. Ive managed to do
> this on other systems, (RH7,RH9,FC2), by changing
> initdefault in inittab from 5 to 3 (or 2 in FC4, there is no
> network).
> 
> When I attempt to return from KDE, however, instead of
> returning to a normal console screen (black with white text),
> the screen turns pink with a narrow green border! The keyboard
> apparently still functions as I can type 'halt' and the
> computer eventually halts even though no text is visable on
> the screen. Once halted, I can reboot using CTRL-ALT-DEL,
> and the black screen returns and everything appears normal.
> I tried installing twice with the same results.
> The install detected the monitor and graphics card correctly,
> nothing special here (Matrox G200).
> 
> Has something changed between FC2 and FC4 to cause this
> behavior?

Have you got the updated xorg-x11* packages installed?

# yum update xorg-x11\*

Paul.