On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:19:09 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth wrote:
Anyway, I suspect the real trouble is misrecognition of the
monitor. That's an HP w2207h, at 1680x1050; but xrandr reports 800x480.
Try booting run level 3 - that won't try to start the X server.
(edit /etc/inittab and change the :5: on the last line to :3:).
You could also look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and
see if there are any errors that make any sense, but if you
are just using it as a server, maybe you don't need it
starting up X anyway.