On Sunday 22 August 2010 13:24:49 Chris Smart wrote: > 2010/8/22 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Without any warning or obvious reason, Fedora has ceased to function. I > > cannot get any graphical login. kdm.log has huge numbers of lines like > > Boot to recovery mode/single user mode/runlevel 3 and create an X.org > config file that uses vesa driver (i.e. run 'X -configure' and move > that file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edit it to make sure Video card > section driver is set to "vesa"). Then boot to runlevel 5 (init 5) and > see if it works. > Good idea. Pity it didn't work. Running X -configure xorg.conf.new gave me a black screen. Booting into run level 5 gave me a blue screen with dashes across it. Attempting to boot back into a run level 1 to get rid of it gave me a black screen with the fan running like mad. I don't seem to have any way of getting in now. Unfortunately, on this occasion I had installed from the Live CD. I don't have the DVD though I do have an F12 one. Hopefully that will allow me to use rescue mode to delete xorg.conf Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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