No Video

Charles R. Buchanan gobrowns at daphatbell.com
Fri Feb 16 13:33:00 UTC 2007


On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:56:44 +0000, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> took time to say the following:

>Phil Meyer wrote:
>> Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
>>> I installed Fedora 6 yesterday and when booting up, there is no video.
>>> The monitor is on (indicator light is green). During the install, it
>>> correctly identified the video card so I assume it loaded/installed the
>>> correct drivers for it.
>>> Anyone ever experience this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>   
>> 
>> I suspect that rhgb (red hat graphical boot) is the issue.
>
>My first thought too...
>
>> Boot to a rescue CD, do the chroot, edit /etc/grub.conf, or 
>> /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf if ya don't wanna do the chroot thing.
>
>You don't need to go that far.  At the Grub menu, press 'A' and use the 
>cursor and delete keys to remove the "rhgb" part of the line, and add a 
>"3" (without the quotes) at the end of the line.  Then hit enter to boot 
>just the once with that modified commandline.
>
>This will stop the graphical boot progress display AND stop you starting 
>X after boot.  Log in with the text login prompt and start meddling.  I 
>guess I would first
>
>  - edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to remove the rhgb bit permanently
>
>  - try "telinit 5" to start X, maybe it can work (probably not)
>
>  - if it wasn't happy, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the video 
>driver to "vesa", try again
>
>-Andy

Thanks Andy. Will give that a shoot momentarily. Had to kill the
download, it was taking way too long and I have to still get ready for
work! :-)  




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