REPOST: Installation worked from hard-disk, now X-Windows trouble

[Tarek M. Nabil]

On windows, It's true color: 32 bit.

I tried, and after I started X, I got the X cursor with a blank screen. Even
ctrl+alt+delete didn't work and I had to reset my PC :( After the restart,
the X worked but with a 800*600 resolution, I used the display settings to
increase the resolution and then tried to log out which caused the machine
to hang for a while and then I was able to log out but X didn't work :(

I don't know what to do, I'm completely new to this thing, and I'm starting
to really get turned off. What do you advise? Move on to FC2? Is it better?
Or is Fedora only for people who know their way around and I should look
into other releases that are a bit older and maybe more stable, like
Mandrake or RH9 or  for example. I know it's not supported, but what the
heck. Or what do you suggest?


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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:17:26 +0200
From: Hannes Mayer <fedora at ancientcoins.biz>
Subject: Re: REPOST: Installation worked from hard-disk,	now X-Windows
	trouble
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <40B0A466.4080400 at ancientcoins.biz>
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Tarek M. Nabil wrote:
> Actually I did not upgrade to FC2. I chose FC1 cause I'm new to Linux and
I
> thought FC1 would be more stable?
>
> Do I need to upgrade to FC2, or should I just try to fix my X problem?
>
> My videocard as Windows recognizes it is Intel(R) 82865G Graphics
Controller
> with 64MB of Memory. The monitor is recognized by Windows as a "Plug and
> Play monitor", not very useful.

Ahh, well, I never used FC1, so I may be of limited help here...

But try to set DefaultDepth to 16 in Section "Screen" in the xfree86 config
file:

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16

Maybe this helps ...
What is your color-depth in windoze ?

Cheers,
Hannes.




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