Installing Fedora 8 on Intel Core Duo

[Bill Davidsen]

Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> 
> 
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:54 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>>   If you aren't using X (graphical boot or graphical login or startx from
>> command line), then I think the display is handled by the kernel and
>> there is no file containing the settings.
>>
>> In X, definitions are in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>>
>>   
> The xorg.conf doesn't say much, it's all the default, which should work 
> I would think?
> 
Frequently not. Where it says Videocard0 try replacing "Intel" with 
"i810" or "vesa" instead. I have an install which persists in setting 
that value to accelerated ATI, to "Intel" may be wrong, and "vesa" will 
almost certainly work.

>> The rhgb option in /etc/grub.conf runs the graphical boot.  Graphical
>> login is controlled by /etc/inittab, in particular, the line
>>
>>         id:5:initdefault:
>>
>> If you change the 5 to 3 on that line, you will boot to command-line
>> mode.  Log in and run startx.  You can shift back to your login console
>> with <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>.  See if there are any error reports on the
>> console.  Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log
>> to see if there are errors.
>>
>>   
> I now boot at run level 3. When I type startx the screen goes black and 
> when I press <ctrl><alt><f1> I don't go back to the login but instead I 
> get a lot of error messages which can provide a clue on what is going 
> wrong. Is there a way I can capture those messages? Are they maybe put 
> in a file?
> 
> Giulio
> 
> P.S. I attach the Xorg.conf file
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Default Layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "intel"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     24
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> 


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