Booting F9 with NO X11

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Sat Jun 7 17:27:42 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 13:20 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 13:13 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > I've installed F9 x86 on an hp 2133. But, as I expected, the graphical
> > interface is screwed up. (I had the same problem with the LiveCD). I've
> > tried passing the following options at boot (vesa skipddc vga=794) but a
> > weird somewhat blank screen always comes up and the system is locked (I
> > can't get to a console to try to fix X).
> > 
> > How can I boot just to a non-graphical system so I can get to a console?
> > 
> > I've asked repeatedly on this list for related info but so far no one
> > has responded. Please, I need some help!
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> 
> OK, I tried adding "text" and that allows be to get to a text console.
> 
> Now all I have to do is get X working (it works fine using SUSE 10).
> 
> Rick B.
> 

It's very weird. F9 appears to correctly identify the graphics card
(something like "chrome" by VIA). I changed this in xorg.conf to "vesa"
which I thought would be very generic but now the screen goes black when
I execute "startx".

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Rick




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