RE: blank screen on boot in fc7



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On Behalf Of Jim Cornette
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:02 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: blank screen on boot in fc7

frank.h.vanderlinden@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

tried both and still same result. last thing i see before a blank
screen is starting smartd ok........ then it goes blank.

Have you backspaced out the rhgb quiet portion before entering the space
bar followed by a three?
This is easiest to edit by pressing the a key for append after revealing
the menu with any key and followed by the a key. Then you backspace out
rhgb quiet, add a space and follow with a 3 and press enter. This should
give you the login prompt where you can login as root or a user. As root
you could run system-config-display or at least check your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
This file should at least tell you what driver it is trying to use which
is causing a blank screen. (Intel or i810, nv or nouveau, other)
Changing this entry for the driver to vesa should at least give you some
GUI with fair resolution.
Now what editor you use for editing in text mode is up to you. I prefer
using mc and its built-in editor. I'd run 'yum install mc' followed by
'mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and change whatever driver listed to vesa,
exit the editor, saving the changes and then logging in another terminal
as regular user and running startx. If it has intel, you could try i810
instead, if it lists nouveau, you could try nv instead.


Jim

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Ok tried del the rhbquiet followed by a 3 and I get the logon console and
login as root. When I run startx from there it loads just fine with no hangs
what so ever. Its Compaq v6000 with a amd turion 64 x2 and nvida graph card.
I am running the x86_64 ver.

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