Re: F9 install : can't get X to work

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:19 -0700, Craig White wrote:

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 02:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I have a problem with installing F9, which I think can't be
hardware.

I'm trying to shift my #1 machine over from Fedora 8 to Fedora
9.
I got it out from behind the KVM switch, and did the install with
direct connections to the peripherals, so that it could negotiate with
them any way it needed. This worked fine with my #2.

#1, after what seemed a normal upgrade, however, is so far off
that I just get a brief little box on the monitor saying "Input signal
out of range. Change settings to 1680x1050 - 60 Hz" (which I think
comes from the monitor).

With RIPLinuX, I can edit what seems to be the machine's own
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (not RIPLinux's -- I hope and believe). I've tried
that a couple ways, trying to clone what #2 (running F9) and #3
(running F8) have -- the hard way, from behind the KVM switch.

I would much rather ssh into #1, or simply scp a config file
over. But, although RIPLinux will make #1 connect to the router, it
then refuses ssh and scp from the rest of the LAN.

Nor have I yet managed to get it to boot from its own hard
drive
into init3. I can hit "I" for the interactive boot, but no matter how
fast I type init3, it still goes to that promptless demand from the
monitor.

With RIPLinux, if it gets to its useless, promptless display, I
can hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get a root prompt; but with the machine
booted from the hard drive, that fails.

#1 machine did fine with this monitor (an HP w2207h), twice,
running F8 both times; so do #2 and #3, albeit without actually using
1680x1050. (They think it's 1280x1024, and one of them uses 1440x900
under that (!), but it's close enough for the monitor itself to
accommodate the difference by stretching.
----
edit the grub boot (press 'e') and then edit the 'kernel' line by adding
'3' at the end to boot in runlevel 3

Aha! no init. Worked fine; many thanks! I added the 3 in /etc/
grub.conf, to make sure I don't forget.

I would probably recommend that you simply run 'system-config-display
--reconfig'

First, I made #2 try to scr its own xorg.conf to #1; or #1 to scp
it from #2. Scp still failed.

But ssh succeeded; so I now have #2 (whose name is hbsk) logged
in as root on #1 (whose name is TopBlack) -- so that I can click back and
forth on #2 between newsreader and ssh session.

I see this :
===== =====
[btth@hbsk ~]$ ssh 192.168.0.3
btth@xxxxxxxxxxx's password:
Last login: Thu Jun 12 13:28:04 2008 from 192.168.0.8
Can't open display
[btth@TopBlack ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@TopBlack ~]# system-config-display --reconfig

===== =====

With neither a response nor a return to prompt. I *think* that
means it's hung, right? Probably because of the KVM machine being in the
way?

I think that means my next move is to shut everything down, pull
#1 (which should now boot to init3) out from behind the KVM switch, plug
it directly into the peripherals, boot it up, and run system-config-
display --reconfig again on it (a command for which I thank you; I didn't
know anything like it existed.

Stay tuned.


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