Can't restart x on card O

[Lawrence E Graves]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:31 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:57 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:54 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > > Excuse me for being so dumb, but I am at my command line and do not know
> > > the command to get to the log.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:39 -0700, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > > > > I don't understand what is going on.  I can install Fedora 12 fine but
> > > > > when I reboot it, no screen  Message says it can't restart x on card 0.
> > > > > Somebody, please help.  I have installed fedora 12 at least 10 times
> > > > > with same results.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was told to use akmod and that doesn't do the trick.  I use nothing
> > > > > and that certainly doesn't do the trick.  I have a evga 9500 video card.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you get to a console with ctrl-alt-f2, or if you boot to runlevel 3?
> > > > Then look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Adam Williamson
> > > > Fedora QA Community Monkey
> > > > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> > > > http://www.happyassassin.net
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
> > 
> > 
> > I forgot to enter my reply down here, sorry
> 
> less /var/log/Xorg.0.log will let you look at it. If you have a USB
> stick, you can plug it in, and - as root - do something like:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/temp
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp
> 
> to mount it at /mnt/temp , then copy it there, so you can paste it from
> another machine. the /dev/sdb1 will vary, it depends on many hard disks
> you have. Do:
> 
> ls /dev/sd*
> 
> both before and after plugging in the USB stick. The one that only shows
> up after is the USB stick.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> http://www.happyassassin.net
> 

I pray this will tell you something.  I just started a reinstall to get
this information. It might be easier to instruct me from here as to what
I need to check as I install.
-- 
Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>
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