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

Jack Gates jlgates at charter.net
Fri Jul 7 16:50:35 UTC 2006


On Thursday 06 July 2006 01:22, Jack Gates wrote:
> I cannot get the GUI to display.  The system boots up at the command prompt
> and asks for the login at the same.
>
> I have a ViewSonic VG800 monitor and an ATI 9600 Pro video card.  The
> mother board is an ABIT IS7
>
> The installation could only be done using "linux text", I figured then I
> was going to have a problem with the GUI.
>

I am not sure why I could not install in GUI mode. But manually changing 
the /etc/inittab file resolved the bootup and login to the GUI.

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Jack Gates
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