Installing Fedora 8 on Intel Core Duo

[Giulio Troccoli]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:54 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>   
> If you aren't using X (graphical boot or graphical login or startx from
> command line), then I think the display is handled by the kernel and
> there is no file containing the settings.
>
> In X, definitions are in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
>   
The xorg.conf doesn't say much, it's all the default, which should work 
I would think?

> The rhgb option in /etc/grub.conf runs the graphical boot.  Graphical
> login is controlled by /etc/inittab, in particular, the line
>
>         id:5:initdefault:
>
> If you change the 5 to 3 on that line, you will boot to command-line
> mode.  Log in and run startx.  You can shift back to your login console
> with <ctrl>-<alt>-<F1>.  See if there are any error reports on the
> console.  Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log
> to see if there are errors.
>
>   
I now boot at run level 3. When I type startx the screen goes black and 
when I press <ctrl><alt><f1> I don't go back to the login but instead I 
get a lot of error messages which can provide a clue on what is going 
wrong. Is there a way I can capture those messages? Are they maybe put 
in a file?

Giulio

P.S. I attach the Xorg.conf file
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