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Fedora Core

  • 07-12-2005 02:52AM
    #1
    Devil Tiger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    I just installed Fedora Core and went through the end of installation wizard where you setup timezone, etc. and now once I get past the setup when booting my monitor looses signal (acting like I turned off the machine which I did not). I think it might be the resolution or something, how can I edit the X config file without actually booting with a GUI.

    Any other things that might be causing this?


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  • #2
    PhantomBeaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭PhantomBeaker


    When you get into grub type in the number of whataever runlevel you wanna enter... so maybe 2.
    Or 1 - which is single user mode, it'll boot up and ask you for the root password.

    (You may need to hit a key to pass parameters to the kernel. In which case you hit that key. Looking at some docs it's apparently A)

    Neither of those two runlevels should use X. Then just poke about with the X config. I'm assuming you know where it is?

    If you don't it's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (i think). Back it up before you play though. There may be other ways to play with it. I know in suse there's SaX or something similar.

    Anyway, I hope you know your way around a text editor. If you don't have a preference, nano is probably the easiest for you to pick up straight away - it's basically notepad. You can use cursor keys and everything. When you wanna save just hit Ctrl and O, to quit it's Ctrl and X.

    Sorry if I sound condescending, I don't know how much you know your way around text interfaces, or X configs, so I figured I'd offer some amount of extra info. :)

    Hope that helps.

    Aoife


  • #3
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Other solution is to wait for a while after boot, then hit ctrl+alt+F1. This brings you to a console login. Great for getting out of xorg.conf mess ups (which I make a lot of :D).

    That's the right location for the xorg.conf file Phantom.

    I also highly recommend nano.....though the keyboard shortcuts are funny, they're listed at the bottom of the screen.


  • #4
    dubhthach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Khannie wrote:
    Other solution is to wait for a while after boot, then hit ctrl+alt+F1.

    ctrl+alt+backspace can be used to restart x. In IRIX it's know as the "Vulcan death grip" and it's Ctrl+Shift+F12+/
    It's the business for when xsgi rarely fecks up.


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