No Video

[Charles R. Buchanan]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:47:53 -0700, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> took time to say the following:

>Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
>> I installed Fedora 6 yesterday and when booting up, there is no video.
>> The monitor is on (indicator light is green). During the install, it
>> correctly identified the video card so I assume it loaded/installed the
>> correct drivers for it. 
>>
>> Anyone ever experience this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>   
>
>I suspect that rhgb (red hat graphical boot) is the issue.
>
>Boot to a rescue CD, do the chroot, edit /etc/grub.conf, or 
>/mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf if ya don't wanna do the chroot thing.
>
>Remove the rhgb (delete the word) from the kernel (the only place it 
>exists is the kernel line, so just search for rhgb and remove that word).
>
>exit rescue gracefully and all should be well the next time you boot up.
>
>There are still several video cards that just simply do not like the 
>graphical boot.
>
>Good Luck!


Thanks. Will try that as soon as this download of knoppix is done. The
SuSe live dvd was trashed.