Re: Can't log into FC4, display keeps going "out of range"

news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Was in X-windows fine last night, never made any config changes. Then
> today I try loging in and during bootup when it starts the X server the
> motitor goes "out of range".
> I try CTRL+ALT+Backspace (and CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+(numpad plus)) and nothing
> happens.
> 
> So in the Grub menu I tried to add vga=ask to the kernel line.
> Worked fine until the regular X server start during boot up.
> So then I tried removing rhgb (?) from the line, and it went through
> boot up in text mode! Yeah!
> But then after presenting me with the text, console login screen, in
> the middle of typing the username, bam "out of range."
> 
> In Grub I've tried seeing if I can access the xorg.conf file so I can
> make some changes, but it seems I can't access that partition from
> Grub.
> 
> What in the world do I do now? Why is it going "out of range" even when
> X-win isn't starting up? The card and monitor seem to work fine in
> WinXP OS boot.

I can think of 2 things to try to get to a command line:

- When X has started and the screen is garbled, try hitting
  Ctrl+Alt+F6 or Ctrl+Alt+F1. On some Linux distributions this gets you
  to a command line.

- If that does not work, change your runlevel:
  at the boot prompt, give the kernel the following parameter:

  init=/bin/bash

  When you have a prompt, remount /:

  mount -o rw,remount /

  Then edit /etc/inittab and change the initdefault entry to a runlevel
  that does not use X. I think 2 will work, and hope people who know
  Fedora will correct me if I am wrong :^)

  Then a reboot will get you into command line mode.

Once you are on the command line you can figure out why things went wrong.
To experiment, you can always start the X server with 'X' and kill it
with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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