Display shutting down on first boot

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sat Aug 4 15:02:06 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
> 
> After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got
> a message similar to this:
> The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90
> seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2
> minutes before trying again on display :0.
> 
> After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a
> blank screen.
> 
> This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.

I guess the first question is: what is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

The second question: what is at the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

-Andy




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