Can't restart x on card O

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:08 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:34 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > 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
> > > > > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> > > > > http://www.happyassassin.net
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I forgot to enter my reply down here, sorry
> > > -- 
> > > Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
> > > 
> > 
> > hey,
> > 
> > $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
> > 
> > you can also use 
> > 
> > $ fpaste /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
> > 
> > to paste it to fpaste.org
> > 
> > regards,
> > Ankur
> > 
> 
> I received the message that this command was not found and glib critical
> 

hi,

"cat" not found??? or was the message for fpaste (which is to be
included by default too)?

try:

$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Just checking, you dint use the "$", did you? (its just to signify the
prompt)

regards,
Ankur

PS : this thread from fedoraforum.org is the nvidia guide: 

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752