Inspiron Laptop won't display

m jones blindman.jones at verizon.net
Fri May 21 04:09:06 UTC 2004


still nothing, tried a fresh install and X just will not display... period.

On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:21, look what m jones wrote:
> I upgraded from FC1 on my Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop today, install went
> great, after reboot after all the messages init5 starts and nothing...
> blank screen. I know that it is not locked up, I can CTL+ALT+F2 and login
> all is working, so I change the default init to 3, reboot, fine... login,
> startx... fails... I noticed there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf I read someone
> did 'ln -s XF86Config xorg.conf' so I try that... nothing... still blank
> screen. So I run 'X -configure' and that a new xorg.conf tried that,
> nothing...
>
> I am getting nowhere fast... it seems that X is starting, it is just that
> nothing can be seen, it is just a blank screen...
>
> any suggestions?
> --
> michael jones
> erleichda archiving
> usa

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michael jones
erleichda archiving
usa





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