I have a monitor and/or video card problem on FC5

[Scott R. Godin]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:22 -0400, Jack Gates wrote:
> My FC2 install has worked fine since I got passed this problem about
> two years or so ago.  I was able to get the GUI to actually work
> during the install of FC2.  I had to tell FC2 to use a generic monitor
> and video card for the GUI to work on boot up of the OS.  This time I
> did not get any option that would let me do that.  Can some one help
> by telling me where I can find the solution to get the GUI working?  I
> have no idea where to look or what to do to resolve this.


if you can boot the machine ok, login at the command prompt as root and
try running system-config-display

If that fails, what error messages do you get? 
What video card/motherboard are you running?

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