On Sunday 22 August 2010 13:24:49 Chris Smart wrote:
2010/8/22 Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)googlemail.com>:
> Without any warning or obvious reason, Fedora has ceased to function. I
> cannot get any graphical login. kdm.log has huge numbers of lines like
Boot to recovery mode/single user mode/runlevel 3 and create an X.org
config file that uses vesa driver (i.e. run 'X -configure' and move
that file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edit it to make sure Video card
section driver is set to "vesa"). Then boot to runlevel 5 (init 5) and
see if it works.
Good idea. Pity it didn't work. Running X -configure xorg.conf.new gave me a
black screen. Booting into run level 5 gave me a blue screen with dashes
across it. Attempting to boot back into a run level 1 to get rid of it gave
me a black screen with the fan running like mad. I don't seem to have any way
of getting in now.
Unfortunately, on this occasion I had installed from the Live CD. I don't
have the DVD though I do have an F12 one. Hopefully that will allow me to use
rescue mode to delete xorg.conf
Anne
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