trouble shooting Fedora Core 3 installation

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 03:45:07 UTC 2005


On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:26:25 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 19:45 -0700, Stephen King wrote:
> > Thanks Kam
> > I'm new at this and not sure where to start.
> > I am running a Dell PIII 1.1 GHz with 512 MbRam 2 hard drives and
> > integrated audio/video.  The video chip is Intel 810
> > I think the problem is with my video resolution.  I inadvertently set it
> > too high for my card.  I think the maximum resolution is 1248x1024
> > I dont know enough about this to change the resolution via a terminal
> > and when I try to bring up system settings, the monitor goes wacky.  I
> > suppose I could just reinstall Fedora and hope I can change the
> > resolution in the process??
> ----
> with Linux, you shouldn't have to reboot for most stuff, let alone re-
> install.
> 
> Press Control-Alt-F2
> login as root
> type...
> 
> telinit 3
> system-config-display --reconfig
> 
> When you get the resolution to where you want...
> telinit 5
> 
> Craig
> 

Check the color depth setting.  Max res and true (24-bit) color will
slow down your system.




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