Re: F9 install : can't get X to work
- From: Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:19:18 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:06 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:19 -0700, Craig White wrote:[.... failure ...]
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 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).
We progress, we progress -- albeit inchwise. I did the above; it
brought up a tiny-looking version of what I normally see when I click on
Display in the Main Menu.
But that display thinks the resolution should be 800x600 -- and
seems not to see the mouse. Using the tab and the arrows I got to the
Hardware tab. That gives HP w2207 as the monitor; it's actually w2207h.
But trying to change it is an exercise in frustration. If I
could, I'd probably change to generic LCD 1680x1050, or perhaps
1280x1024, or something between, judging by experience with my other
machines.
It shows me no list to choose from, even with tab & arrows, but a
blank small window which it doesn't let me type into -- nor even close.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace got me out of that -- but only to a
meaningless display with no prompt.
If I could get to that Display-display normally, with full use
even of just the mouse (or tab & arrows to go up and down visible lists),
I think I could putter with it enough to get something usable; I've been
doing so with various Fedora releases, machines, and monitors for years
now.
If I boot #2 in its present headless state, it will be on the
router; maybe I can finagle an scp yet.
Or if I burn an xorg.conf to a CD, maybe (maybe!) #1 will mount
it in init3 -- and maybe (triple maybe!) I can somehow get it to copy
from CD to /etc/X11 ...
I'm getting way out of my tree, and a long way onto thin ice
here ...
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