problem just after FC4 install

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:32:08AM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 	I have FC4 dual booting with Windows XP on a new machine with my old
> monitor.  The FC4 installation from the CDs appeared to be successful.
> 	The start-up of FC4 appears normal too -- the messages resemble those
> which appear during the old FC3 boot with the services starting up
> successfully -- until, I think, just before the Fedora login screen
> should appear.  Then a blizzard of messages zip by before I can read
> them until a low resolution graphics screen appears with the option: "I
> cannot start the X server.  It is likely that it is not set up
> correctly.  Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the
> problem?"  Replying "yes" gives some sort of log that's not immediately
> revealing to me -- again, too much information!  Replying "no" brings up
> a similar low-resolution screen that asks me if I want to set the X
> windows display.  Replying "yes" to that brings up a familiar-looking
> screen resolution widget.  When I set the screen resolution to 1280 X
> 1024 (which works fine on this monitor for Windows XP now and did work
> on the old box/monitor combination running FC3) the screen goes blank
> and the system appears to hang.  But after I hit enter a few times the
> login screen appears normally.
> 	FC4 seems to be running OK and I have "save system setup" activated but
> I'm still having to go through this routine whenever I boot.  Something
> must be set wrong, somewhere....  OK, it probably has something to do
> with the way X windows is interacting with the graphics and monitor.
> 	Any suggestions as to how to proceed -- or where to look for clues and
> what to look for -- would be most appreciated.
> 
> Jerry
> 

I would try to set the display with system-config-display before I
give up.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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