RE: Greeting or Gnome Crashing FC4

From: Mike Chambers (mike_at_miketc.com)
Date: 07/23/05

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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:39:39 -0500

    On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 20:35 +0100, Avron Olshewsky wrote:
    > Hi I have run yum -y update as suggested. The first time boot
    > configuration is still crashing.
    > The second boot I managed to login and get KDE up, however after a few
    > seconds the login screen was reset.
    > The I got a message "Greeter program appears to be crashing, will try
    > alternative" was prompted with a different
    > Login screen , logged in ok .. Then was reset again to default loggin
    > screen...

    Sounds like a video problem, driver or monitor. Try running
    system-config-display and make sure the right video card and monitor are
    selected and see if that works.

    If above doesn't work, try running the command "setup" and go to X
    configuration and see if you can do it there. 

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
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