I had a normal working X a few days back. I have a dual bot system and needed an app for a few days to work on som eproject so did not boot in to linux for some days. Now when I boot in to linux, neither do I get the gdm screen for login nor can I start X from console. I got the error : "Failed to load default font fixed.
This PC has an Intel 865GF MB which is not detected by the kernel 2.4.x which I'm on but still X was doing okay. I tried booting off of knoppix and copying knoppix's XF86Config but now I get the error : No screens found. How is knoppix able to start X and when I copy i t's XF86Config, that doesn't work?
I kept looking for some tool to configure X, but there's no console tool I could find. There used to be xf86config in old RH systems but even that is not in Fedora, stramge! I have searched the Fedora install CDs but there's no such tool
This raises another question: Is there a rpm equivalent to Debian's apt-cache search and apt-cache show commands?
Deboo
Deboo Geek wrote:
I had a normal working X a few days back. I have a dual bot system and needed an app for a few days to work on som eproject so did not boot in to linux for some days. Now when I boot in to linux, neither do I get the gdm screen for login nor can I start X from console. I got the error : "Failed to load default font fixed.
This PC has an Intel 865GF MB which is not detected by the kernel 2.4.x which I'm on but still X was doing okay. I tried booting off of knoppix and copying knoppix's XF86Config but now I get the error : No screens found. How is knoppix able to start X and when I copy i t's XF86Config, that doesn't work?
I kept looking for some tool to configure X, but there's no console tool I could find. There used to be xf86config in old RH systems but even that is not in Fedora, stramge! I have searched the Fedora install CDs but there's no such tool
This raises another question: Is there a rpm equivalent to Debian's apt-cache search and apt-cache show commands?
Deboo
system-config-dislay is the tool to configure X in FC3 and current development versions.
If you run 'system-config-display --reconfig' it will start with a new configuration and disregard any previous trials to come up with a new config file for X.
If your mb has an Intel 865G video, I have one that works great. The problems needed to be completed before it would work decent was an upgrade to BIOS (only got 640x480 or 800x600 before upgrade). I had to change BIOS settings related to legacy video from the default 1MB to an 8MB setting.
Is your BIOS updated and are your setting is BIOS correct?
This may or may not be similar to your problem. I saw 865 and pass on problems that I resolved with this card type.
Jim
On Sunday 01 May 2005 22:11, Deboo Geek wrote:
I had a normal working X a few days back. I have a dual bot system and needed an app for a few days to work on som eproject so did not boot in to linux for some days. Now when I boot in to linux, neither do I get the gdm screen for login nor can I start X from console. I got the error : "Failed to load default font fixed.
This quite often means that the X font server is not running. make sure that you are in runlevel 3, not 5: init 3 service xfs status if it isn't running, then service xfs start and test again with startx
One other thing that I have found to cause the same error message is faulty permissions on /tmp. ls -ld /tmp should look like this:
drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 12288 May 2 10:46 /tmp/
if it doesn't, then chmod 1777 /tmp will fix that
This PC has an Intel 865GF MB which is not detected by the kernel 2.4.x which I'm on but still X was doing okay. I tried booting off of knoppix and copying knoppix's XF86Config but now I get the error : No screens found. How is knoppix able to start X and when I copy i t's XF86Config, that doesn't work?
differing paths in the file, possibly? which display drivers (grep driver /etc/X11/XF86Config) was the knoppix version using?
I kept looking for some tool to configure X, but there's no console tool I could find. There used to be xf86config in old RH systems but even that is not in Fedora, stramge! I have searched the Fedora install CDs but there's no such tool
actually many of the system-config-* tools work fine on a console. You stated that you had kernel 2.4. This would suggest you are running Fedora Core 1. In which case (I think) the commands were redhat-config-* so to configure your display you use redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig --noui (leave off the --noui if you want it to start the graphical config tool)
This raises another question: Is there a rpm equivalent to Debian's apt-cache search and apt-cache show commands?
apt works fine on Fedora Core - you can download it from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/ the other alternative is yum, also available from dag. Although on latyer releases of Fedora Core it is part of the distribution
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