Fedora 9 Openchrome drv HP w2207h Monitor was: Re: help with setting up graphics

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:20:14 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
	[...]
> I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I boot
> into runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into runlevel 3,
> log in as root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just fine. I've
> described the problem here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448340

	I'll take a look at that shortly, thanks.
	
        Meanwhile, I did manage to get #1 as well as #2 machine to run 
F9;  but unless/until I hear better from Frank Murphy, I have to boot 
both in init3, log in as root, and play with the X configuration first by 
editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then by running system-config-display.    
That gives me a weird error message, something to the effect that   
the connection to the Xserver is temporarily unavailable. But if
I then log root out and my userid in, I can command startx, and  
it takes a while but works.

	Next time I have to shut one of them down, or sooner if I get to 
it, I'll try your way instead; it certainly sounds shorter and easier. 
And, come to think of it, last time I did mine, I didn't change anything 
with either my editor or my config command; just ran them, logged root 
out and userid in.

	I have to say, I've already had more trouble with F9 than ever 
with any other release, since I started on RH7. (I had RH6, boughten in a 
bookstore, but never succeeded in installing it at all.) What's more, I 
can't remember nearly so many others describing install problems in my 
time watching this list ....

	Otoh, it certainly isn't any fault of our developers that (what 
seems to be) a new generation of hardware technology (i.e., wide-screen 
monitors with numerous bells & whistles) has been coming out right along 
with their release, not giving them to take account of it. 

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