problem with fedora 3

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Venkatesh Madhipatla" <msvenkatesh at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: problem with fedora 3


> hi,
>
> i have a hp pavillion celeron pc.
> i was having red hat 7.2 previously and it was working fine. now i
> upgraded it to fedora 3. The installation went without any problem.
> But when i boot the machine, it accepts the user and password and then
> nothing comes up. i see just vertical stripes in the display. i guess
> it's not working properly with graphics card.
>
> i have windows 98 in another partition and it works fine. By the way,
> how does it accept the user and password in a graphical interface if
> it has problems with graphics card?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> venkat

Sorry about the premature sending of the previous message.  As I was 
saying...

Sounds like you are booting to graphical mode, and your video settings are
messed up.  I would boot to runlevel 3 and reset my video card settings.

To do that, reboot.  When you see the Grub menu, hit "e" to enter edit mode. 
Then
choose the line with the kernel in it (it will look similar to:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

Hit "e" again to edit this line.  Take out the "rhgb quiet" part and add "3" 
so it looks similar to this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ 3

Then "escape," then "b" to boot the system.

Once you've booted, log in as root and run the command

/usr/bin/system-config-display --reconfig

You can set the display settings to something that will work better with 
your hardware.  Also, I have heard a lot of people griping about the "rhgb 
quiet" stuff in /boot/grub/grub.conf.  You might want to take that out 
permanently.

Thomas