Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got a message similar to this: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a blank screen.
This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
Dotan Cohen
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got a message similar to this: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a blank screen.
This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
I guess the first question is: what is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
The second question: what is at the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
-Andy
On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got a message similar to this: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a blank screen.
This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?
Dotan Cohen
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got a message similar to this: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a blank screen.
This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?
Not sure that is the right idea... after all a lot has changed underneath a "working xorg.conf" from FC6.". The question is, what is the Driver line in the "Device" stanza. To get yourself going, try setting Driver "vesa" in there.
-Andy
On 04/08/07, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen dotancohen@gmail.com wrote:
Problem#3 with installing Fedora 7:
After the first boot setup screen, in which one defines a user, I got a message similar to this: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
After clicking OK, I got the message again after a few minutes of a blank screen.
This is on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Duo Core Intel, 2GB RAM, ATI X1400 video.
I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?
Not sure that is the right idea... after all a lot has changed underneath a "working xorg.conf" from FC6.". The question is, what is the Driver line in the "Device" stanza. To get yourself going, try setting Driver "vesa" in there.
Thanks. How can I get to a command prompt to find out?
Dotan Cohen
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?
Not sure that is the right idea... after all a lot has changed underneath a "working xorg.conf" from FC6.". The question is, what is the Driver line in the "Device" stanza. To get yourself going, try setting Driver "vesa" in there.
Thanks. How can I get to a command prompt to find out?
Just hit 'A' at the gurb boot prompt and add a '3' to the kernel commandline.
If things ever get really bad, insert your install CD and type
linux rescue
-Andy
Just hit 'A' at the gurb boot prompt and add a '3' to the kernel commandline.
This should take you to a simple console. At which point you can login as root and make whatever changes you want to your xorg.conf.
When you are ready to try them out, just run
telinit 5
which will try and take you up to init level 5, which includes X - If it works great, if not, you can go back to the text console with the control-alt-F1 key combination, run
telinit 3
to go back to init level 3.
Chris
On 04/08/07, Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
Just hit 'A' at the gurb boot prompt and add a '3' to the kernel commandline.
If things ever get really bad, insert your install CD and type
linux rescue
Oof, I'm getting all sorts of garbage while I type at the CLI in runlevel 3.
I'm very pressed to get this system back up, so I'm going to reinstall FC6 or some *buntu, and I'll play with F7 when I have access to a real web browser and can really google. Thanks, Andy, for all the help. I will tackle this later this week and report back.
Dotan Cohen
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