Can't restart x on card O

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:57 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:54 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > Excuse me for being so dumb, but I am at my command line and do not know
> > the command to get to the log.
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:39 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > > > I don't understand what is going on.  I can install Fedora 12 fine but
> > > > when I reboot it, no screen  Message says it can't restart x on card 0.
> > > > Somebody, please help.  I have installed fedora 12 at least 10 times
> > > > with same results.
> > > > 
> > > > I was told to use akmod and that doesn't do the trick.  I use nothing
> > > > and that certainly doesn't do the trick.  I have a evga 9500 video card.
> > > 
> > > Can you get to a console with ctrl-alt-f2, or if you boot to runlevel 3?
> > > Then look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Adam Williamson
> > > Fedora QA Community Monkey
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> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
> 
> 
> I forgot to enter my reply down here, sorry

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log will let you look at it. If you have a USB
stick, you can plug it in, and - as root - do something like:

mkdir /mnt/temp
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp

to mount it at /mnt/temp , then copy it there, so you can paste it from
another machine. the /dev/sdb1 will vary, it depends on many hard disks
you have. Do:

ls /dev/sd*

both before and after plugging in the USB stick. The one that only shows
up after is the USB stick.

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Adam Williamson
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