Fedora and SGI 1600SW Monitor

[Timothy Murphy]

Marc Mouries wrote:

>> As I recall, those monitors are fixed frequency.
>> I'd suggest booting into single user mode,
>> and editing your xorg.conf with the original values from XF86Config
> 
> 
> Thanks your help but i am new to Fedora, can you explain how to:
> 
>  - booting into single user mode,
>  - and editing your xorg.conf with the original values from XF86Config
> 
> because when i rebooted after the install my screen goes white.

Ctrl-Alt-F1 should bring you to text mode.
Then you can login and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (as superuser).

Xorg has replaced XFree86.
Xorg looks for a config file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf
but if this doesn't exist it looks for /etc/X11/XF86Config .
Your old XF86Config is either still there
(assuming you upgraded) or else has been saved in /etc/X11/
under a slightly different name.

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