FC3 screen freezes

[Nancy Merckle]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 21:20 -0400, Nancy Merckle wrote:
>> Hi, All
>>
>> I'm new to FC3. A friend installed it for me over the Memorial Day
>> weekend.  On several occasions over a 15-18 day time frame, when I came
>> upstairs to work on it, I found the screen frozen.  (Other times it was
>> fine.)  The only way I could get the system back was a reset or power down.
>> Then one night after work I came home to find the screen waiting on input
>> for the xorg.config program.  Since I didn't know how to handle it (then)
>> I quit out of it and did some Internet research.
>>
>> After several attempts to solve this problem by modifying the xorg file, I
>> gave up, downloaded a new FC3 dvd and reloaded.  (Actually I DLed the FC4
>> dvd first, but it stops between the Linux boot and the first GUI page of
>> the install.  I tried Linux nofb acpi=off for both.
>
> try typing in gibbrerish first - let it give you an error - and then
> type linux at the prompt.
> That works for some people.

Wow... I was skeptical but I'm now writing from the Linux side of my setup 
and FC4!  I really like the layout too.  And OOo 2.0 looks interesting.

Thanks!

Nancy

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