On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:56:37 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:20:14 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
[...]
> I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I boot
> into runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into runlevel 3,
> log in as root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just fine. I've
> described the problem here:
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448340
I'll take a look at that shortly, thanks.
Meanwhile, I did manage to get #1 as well as #2 machine to run
F9; but unless/until I hear better from Frank Murphy, I have to boot
both in init3, log in as root, and play with the X configuration first
by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then by running system-config-display.
That gives me a weird error message, something to the effect that the
connection to the Xserver is temporarily unavailable. But if I then log
root out and my userid in, I can command startx, and it takes a while
but works.
Next time I have to shut one of them down, or sooner if I get to
it, I'll try your way instead; it certainly sounds shorter and easier.
And, come to think of it, last time I did mine, I didn't change anything
with either my editor or my config command; just ran them, logged root
out and userid in.
[....]
One relevant and one almost surely relevant discovery.
My #1 hardware (with the VIA card) didn't like the xorg.conf file
that Frank Murphy sent -- not quite; but almost. I made three copies,
with changes in each; first with "vesa" replacing "openchrome" as the
driver; second, with the resolution choked all the way back from
1680x1050, which the monitor demands, to 1280x1024, which I know both
machines #1 and #2 can handle; third with both those changes.
With the first, the vesa version, I didn't just boot, but took
the Persson Precaution : edited grub to boot to init 3, logged in as
root, and simply commanded "init 5."
That worked so well I haven't tried anything else yet, not even
booting without the Persson Precaution. I have full use of the whole
1680x1050 resolution, and have had neither any sort of display
breakdowns, nor any other trouble. I look forward to getting #2 (with the
nvidia card) to do as well some day.
Since then, yum update on at least one machine (I wish I could
remember which! But I may have spotted the like on only one but gotten it
on both...) -- on one machine, I say, yum update has brought at least a
dozen X11 items, about half containing the substring "-drv-"; I *think*
those must be drivers, right?
Has anybody else tried any of them with the HP w2207h yet? Would
it be a good idea just to run system-config-display again?
Perhaps try the list of HP flat panel monitors, which didn't
include this one last time I looked? Or run system-config-display only
after editing a particular one of them into xorg.conf?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.