Installing Fedora7 in a VirtualPC2007 guest?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:24:56 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>
>I tried login as root and got a # prompt.
>
>Then tried system-config-display and X started and showed a config
>screen where I could set the colors to thousands (corresponds to depth
>16) and the screen to a Generic LCD panel with resolution 1024x768.
>However, when I hit the OK button the panel disappeared and there was
>only a blank black screen in front of me....
>
>Only way out was a reset of the PC followed by a renewed boot with the
>extra parameters but now without 3.
>
>This brought me finally through it all without corruption and on to a
>login screen where I could get into Fedora as root and add users etc.
>
>I have yet to see how I can get the system to reboot without
>interference with the extra parameters, though.
>

This morning I left for work with it sitting with root logged in and
the desktop displayed in all its glory. I meant to continue tweaking
when I got home, perhaps editing grub.conf etc.

But now the screen has gone totally black! If I move the mouse around
the mouse pointer is displayed until I stop movement, when it
disappears again. Same if I use the keuboard (shift key) then the
mouse pointer appears out of the black for a fraction of a second.

I guess some screen saver has started, but it should not keep on
running when I use the mouse, really....

Is there a key combination that can wake it up from the screen saver
blackness???


Bo Berglund