Fedora 10 on an HP EVO D510

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:37 AM, John Summerfield
<debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> I then switched to runlevel 5 and tried to login as root.
>
> The screen displayed some junk, but I did get a login screen of sorts. I
>  tried to login, the login failed but there was no comprehensible message,
> the fonts were badly distorted. After that, nothing comprehensible displayed
> and I could not crash X or switch to a text console.

What graphics card do you have? If it's ATI, try adding "nomodeset" to
the kernel boot line in grub ...

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh