Re: Graphics/Text Mode


"Walter Mautner" <nodeleaf.20.eatallspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Farticus wrote:

I am runinng Fedora 5 installed on a Dell Latitude Laptop, which ran
well
for a few months.
Then one day I was updating software when the machine went to sleep. As
it
would'nt wake up I had to turn power off and reboot. Now I have this
problem.

The machine now boots into text mode - I cannot get it back to graphics
mode, which was GTK.
If I do startx or Xterm I just get an error message that says display
cannot be run (or something similar), as operator or su.

Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and come back here.
If you have a backup of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename the current
one
and reinstate the backup. Maybe the install trashed it.

I did a yum -y which took about 60 minutes to download and install 263
files.
Then I did a Yum Install Xorg. Now I get the initil graphics screen but
before it gets to the login part, the screen goes blank and freezes - the
only thing visible in the curcor. Hit the power button and although I cab't
see anything it seems to do a normal shutdown, as it takes a few seconds,
the hdd light flickers etc. and then turns off.

How do I get back into text mode to do as you described above?

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