No Video

[Charles R. Buchanan]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:36:26 -0500, linuxmaillists at charter.net took time to say the following:

>On Thursday 15 February 2007, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
>> I installed Fedora 6 yesterday and when booting up, there
>> is no video. The monitor is on (indicator light is
>> green). During the install, it correctly identified the
>> video card so I assume it loaded/installed the correct
>> drivers for it.
>>
>> Anyone ever experience this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>Are you getting anything at all on the screen?

Not getting anything beyond the the first text screen. Sorry if I can't
be more descriptive right now. Once the booting process starts up and
the text that's on the monitor goes away, it stays like that. (gone)

I tried to use ubuntu live cd to access the drives, but that distro
doesn't automount the drives. I have a older SuSe live dvd laying around
somewhere, I'll try that tomorrow. It's bedtime now. 

Will let you know what happens. If I can access the file mentioned below,
I'll take a look at it.

>
>Maybe you are in text mode if so change the runlevel
>
>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.