FC3 screen freezes
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Thu Jun 23 02:18:30 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 21:20 -0400, Nancy Merckle wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I'm new to FC3. A friend installed it for me over the Memorial Day
> weekend. On several occasions over a 15-18 day time frame, when I came
> upstairs to work on it, I found the screen frozen. (Other times it was
> fine.) The only way I could get the system back was a reset or power down.
> Then one night after work I came home to find the screen waiting on input
> for the xorg.config program. Since I didn't know how to handle it (then)
> I quit out of it and did some Internet research.
>
> After several attempts to solve this problem by modifying the xorg file, I
> gave up, downloaded a new FC3 dvd and reloaded. (Actually I DLed the FC4
> dvd first, but it stops between the Linux boot and the first GUI page of
> the install. I tried Linux nofb acpi=off for both.
try typing in gibbrerish first - let it give you an error - and then
type linux at the prompt.
That works for some people.
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