Re: Installing Fedora 8 on Intel Core Duo



Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:54 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
If you aren't using X (graphical boot or graphical login or startx from
command line), then I think the display is handled by the kernel and
there is no file containing the settings.

In X, definitions are in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

The xorg.conf doesn't say much, it's all the default, which should work I would think?

The rhgb option in /etc/grub.conf runs the graphical boot. Graphical
login is controlled by /etc/inittab, in particular, the line

id:5:initdefault:

If you change the 5 to 3 on that line, you will boot to command-line
mode. Log in and run startx. You can shift back to your login console
with <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>. See if there are any error reports on the
console. Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log
to see if there are errors.

I now boot at run level 3. When I type startx the screen goes black and when I press <ctrl><alt><f1> I don't go back to the login but instead I get a lot of error messages which can provide a clue on what is going wrong. Is there a way I can capture those messages? Are they maybe put in a file?

Giulio

P.S. I attach the Xorg.conf file # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

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