fedora 16 does not start in multi user update

[Ed Greshko]

Patrick Dupre <pdupre at kegtux.org> wrote:

>On 2012-08-11 12:39, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Patrick Dupre <pdupre at kegtux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I start in runlevel3
>>
>> OK, I misinterpreted what you'd written earlier.
>>
>>>> What is your video hardware?  If nVidia, your using the standard
>>>> nouveau driver?
>>>It is an intel card 82Q963/Q965
>>>
>>>Yes it looks like that the nouveau driver are installed.
>>
>> Well, of course nouveau is installed. But it won't be used on Intel
>> hardware. I don't know what driver is used for that hardware. There
>> may be a magic boot parameter which may be of help.  But, I'm not in 
>> a
>> situation to check at the moment.
>
>xrandr -q
>says cannot display
>I am using xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.19.0.3.fc16.x86_64

Well, you did say that startx didn't work.  It hung forever. Right?

So X isn't running and therefore xrandr would not find a display.  As I mentioned, there may be a kernel parameter which may help. Just not in a position to check what that may be. 


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