FC3 - no video

[Bryan White]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> At the grub menu, press "e", and add " 3" (including the space) to the
> kernel command line (which either starts "kernel" or "linux" -- I can
> never remember).

That worked.

> This then should get you into Fedora. Run
> system-config-display --reconfig
> as root, and see if you can get X working.

The above command gives me the same 'Out of Range' message from the 
monitor.  I did some poking an determined that the program was writing 
the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  In this file I found my monitor and it 
said the resolutions was 380 x 300.  I changed this to 1280x300.  That 
did not help but I also tried adding 1280x1024 as the first resolution 
for the screen (It was "800x600" "640x480").

Now when I run
	system-config-display
without options, it does initailize the display.  It looks like it is 
asking me to choose a resolution and color depth.  I can't be certain 
because the text font is extremely small (3 or 4 pixels high).

I can also reboot and get to a login prompt.  The fonts here are also 
extremely small.  However if I click on some of the buttons at the 
bottom of the screen a window popups in normal size.

I have not created a user account yet so I did not try to log in. 
Because of the display problems the 'first boot' stuff did not run 
normally.  Is there a way I can rerun this?


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Bryan White

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