Fedora and SGI 1600SW Monitor

Marc Mouriès marc at mouries.net
Mon May 24 11:05:27 UTC 2004


>  - booting into single user mode,

OK, i succeeded to boot in single mode and change the inittab
with runlevel to 3.

Now the boot goes further but it hangs at the line
"Checking new hardware"


>  - and editing your xorg.conf with the original values from XF86Config

where is this file ? and which values do i have to enter ?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Mouries" <marc at mouries.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>; "John
Hearns" <john.hearns at clustervision.com>
Cc: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora and SGI 1600SW Monitor


> Quoting John Hearns <john.hearns at clustervision.com>:
>
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:33, Marc Mouries wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > During the setup of FC1, i was asked to select the type of monitor i
have
> > > and to enter the vsync and hsync of this monitor (which is a SGI
1600SW)
> > > but this was not asked with FC2 and when i reboot after the setup
> > > my screen goes kind of white.
> > 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> >
> >
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> Marc
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