Booting directly into X problems

[Jim Cornette]

Sasa Stupar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My system: I have two HDD on which are installed separetly winxp and FC2
> with their own MBR's. MotherBoard is ASUS P4BGV-MX-EAYZ with built in
> VGA i845.
> I have installed FC2 and have problems to boot directly into X. I get
> blank screen. However, if I first boot into winxp and then reboot into
> linux X works.
> This problem is only happening if machine was switched off for a couple
> of minutes and more.
> Another thing: if I boot to FC2 and choose "Interactive mode" then I can
> also boot into X without any problems.
> Is there anything to do (beside getting a new VGA card) to fix this
> because I am about to remove winxp and I do not want to boot with
> Interactive mode every day?
> 
> Regards,
> Sasa
> 

This sounds like a problem that might be a good candidate for bugzilla. 
Are you booting into graphics mode? (With the flash screen and the blue 
login prompt.) Or are you booting into runlevel 3 (terminal prompt for 
login) and having to launch X using startx.

There might be bugs related to your problem in freedesk.org (xorg-x11). 
Below is a bug for problems with the 815 card. You might find a similar 
bug that is related to the 845 video card there.

https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1817

https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/
should get you there with this blank screen when system is cold-booted.

I did have a problem with a black screen that seemed like the computer 
was locked up. The computer finally brought up the X screen after a long 
wait. Have you let the screen remain black, then check back a few 
minutes later?

Jim