On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:02:08 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:20:14 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> [...]
>> I don't understand it either but similar things happen to me. If I
>> boot into runlevel 5 I only get a black screen. If I boot into
>> runlevel 3, log in as root and run "init 5 ; exit", then X starts just
>> fine. I've described the problem here:
>>
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448340
>
[....]
There it stopped, and gave root's prompt back. I logged out,
and
back in as user; commanded startx; it sat there ten or twenty seconds
with the monitor showing shaded horizontal gray bands; and then came up
almost normally.
xorg.conf now says it was created by system-config-display; and
the videocard driver is set to nv.
The apps I had left on when shutting down were all or almost all
in the upper left workspace, and my gnome terminal had only one tab and
was not quite the right size nor in quite the right place. But otherwise
it seemed normal, except that privoxy wasn't running.
Now I'll go try machine #1, which has a VIA card -- and which,
yesterday or the day before, I had tried yet again to upgrade from F8 to
F9 -- successfully, this time, at last, afaict (except that it had not
been through a reboot). I'll make those results a separate post, when I
have them. Stay tuned.
I'm now on the other machine; the Persson method worked here --
or mostly did. I can get my remote email, and the browsers I've checked
so far can get to some, but not all, of the sites they had at shutdown
yesterday. I have checked that both xinetd and privoxy are running; and
the error messages I get on the unreached sites are not privoxy messages,
anyway, but "Address not found," apparently from the browser. At least
one of them (a trail & hiking forum) does come up, and let me
participate, on Firefox but not on Galeon.
I'll keep trying a little longer, in hopes of a clue to whether
the trouble is in Galeon a/o other browsers, or in F9, or my hardware --
or at my local access provider.
Meanwhile, Frank Murphy has kindly emailed a whole xorg.conf
designed specifically for this monitor. I have moved the old one out of
the way, and created a new one copied from his email. I'll log out and
back in in a little while, and report how it does.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.