Cannot start Fedora 2.

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Mon Aug 23 23:03:27 UTC 2004


> Soo Sip Boon wrote:
> 
> > when i want to start boot, my monitor go blank. i
> > never success for any startup. I was tried to boot
> > from rescue disk and used vim to do changes on
> > etc\X11\Xorg.conf but seem the vim have problem to do
> > edit. in the vim mode i cannot move the cursor up and
> > down, delete things.
> 
> Can you not do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into text mode?
> If you can't then you should edit /etc/inittab
> to start in runlevel 3 rather than 5.
> Then see if system-config-display will get your monitor working.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy

Sorry tim when you launch system-config-display from level 3 it initates X windows and since he gets a blank screen it wont work.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097





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