At 12:35 AM -0500 12/1/06, aceofspades12491(a)aim.com wrote:
Well you are correct, im fairly new to linux.
1. To answer your first question i did infact accept many of the defaults.
I only had the burned disc 1 and 2 and im not sure if thats of any help?
But i was able to install with the two by using the standards, but getting
rid of editors, and Joystick under gnome games. (i dont really know if you
have to get rid of joystick or not).
2. I set up about a 20 gig partition for FC and 1028 megs of swap for my
1024 mes of Ram.
3. It dual boots into windows Xp just fine, The graphics card works under
xp just as it's supposed to.
4. Ido get the text boot screen.
5. It seems as though it is trying to start the Xserver, but the monitor
then goes into sleep mode, and as an added bonus says frequency out of
range.
6. However it does not complete the boot cycle, or even get into the x
server. Its an analog 1600 by 1200 monitor.
I did infact try what Robin suggested, but after the install fedora asks
you to set up firewalls, and account names, etc. Well needless to say that
didnt work. I am able to use a different pc to view this while viewing the
problem. As for bringin the monitor back to life, it did nothing and
proceeded to sit there and face an onslaught of my choice vulgarities.(
this is about the fourth time ive tried to install.) I am also able to
take the X1600 out, and use the onboard graphics to install, which it does
boot correctly and im able to get into fedora and play around. But having
purchased a pricey gfx card, and dual booting with windows, i dont want to
swap the card in and out every time i switch OS's.
Sorry that was a bit long, but i appreciate the help immensely.
-Matt
Have you booted to runlevel 3 (append 3 to the kernel command line in grub,
also remove "rhgb quiet"), logged in as root, and run
"system-config-display --reconfig"?
For more on this sort of issue, google for
"site:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list display reconfig".
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