monitor died, steps to get compaq presario (old) loaded?

[Chris Mohler]

On 4/6/07, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
> Monitor died.  Have an old compaq presario, but when booting to FC5,
> level 5, it only gets as far as clock, then goes black.  I need help to
> find steps to boot to new monitor?  Any help appreciated.  I'm thinking
> I have to manually enter something when boot starts, right?
> Tom

Append a "3" to the boot line in grub to boot into text mode (runlevel 3).

Log in as root, then try:
system-config-display --reconfig

or:
Xorg -configure

HTH,
Chris