On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 13:11 -0700, Mick M. wrote: > the first thing I did was "yum -y upgrade", that did not fix it. > I checked and it was running the "vesa" driver. Interesting, as that's a generic (supposedly) "works with everything, but with low performance" driver. > I hooked up my old system (so I could read the screen). > Then ran "system-config-display". > I could then see the menu box for hardware -> configure.-> radeon. > Back to the broken box. For future reference: When graphic go awry, you should be able to do something like the following: CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a text-only console, which should work on any monitor regardless of driver (although I've had madly scrambled screens, from time to time, on a laptop with a NVidia chipset). Then, you can do login as root and "system-config-display --reconfig" to try configuring X from anew. Then you can CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to the graphical screen, then hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X, and it'll restart and read the configuration file. If all goes well, CTRL+ALT+F1 and log out the root user. But if you had problems, do another reconfig with different options. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
