Re: Cannot start Fedora 2.

From: Mike Burger (mburger_at_bubbanfriends.org)
Date: 08/24/04

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    On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Richard E Miles wrote:

    > > Soo Sip Boon wrote:
    > >
    > > > when i want to start boot, my monitor go blank. i
    > > > never success for any startup. I was tried to boot
    > > > from rescue disk and used vim to do changes on
    > > > etc\X11\Xorg.conf but seem the vim have problem to do
    > > > edit. in the vim mode i cannot move the cursor up and
    > > > down, delete things.
    > >
    > > Can you not do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into text mode?
    > > If you can't then you should edit /etc/inittab
    > > to start in runlevel 3 rather than 5.
    > > Then see if system-config-display will get your monitor working.
    > >
    > > --
    > > Timothy Murphy
    >
    > Sorry tim when you launch system-config-display from level 3 it initates X windows and since he gets a blank screen it wont work.

    If it launches a 16 color 640x480 basic VGA version, it might. It is
    possible that the Xconfiguration has the wrong information in it. 

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