On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:06 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> edit the grub boot (press 'e') and then edit the 'kernel' line by >> adding '3' at the end to boot in runlevel 3 > > Aha! no init. Worked fine; many thanks! I added the 3 in /etc/ > grub.conf, to make sure I don't forget. > >> I would probably recommend that you simply run 'system-config-display >> --reconfig' > > First, I made #2 try to scr its own xorg.conf to #1; or #1 to scp > it from #2. Scp still failed. > > But ssh succeeded; so I now have #2 (whose name is hbsk) logged > in as root on #1 (whose name is TopBlack) -- so that I can click back > and forth on #2 between newsreader and ssh session. [.... failure ...] > I think that means my next move is to shut everything down, pull > #1 (which should now boot to init3) out from behind the KVM switch, plug > it directly into the peripherals, boot it up, and run system-config- > display --reconfig again on it (a command for which I thank you; I > didn't know anything like it existed). We progress, we progress -- albeit inchwise. I did the above; it brought up a tiny-looking version of what I normally see when I click on Display in the Main Menu. But that display thinks the resolution should be 800x600 -- and seems not to see the mouse. Using the tab and the arrows I got to the Hardware tab. That gives HP w2207 as the monitor; it's actually w2207h. But trying to change it is an exercise in frustration. If I could, I'd probably change to generic LCD 1680x1050, or perhaps 1280x1024, or something between, judging by experience with my other machines. It shows me no list to choose from, even with tab & arrows, but a blank small window which it doesn't let me type into -- nor even close. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace got me out of that -- but only to a meaningless display with no prompt. If I could get to that Display-display normally, with full use even of just the mouse (or tab & arrows to go up and down visible lists), I think I could putter with it enough to get something usable; I've been doing so with various Fedora releases, machines, and monitors for years now. If I boot #2 in its present headless state, it will be on the router; maybe I can finagle an scp yet. Or if I burn an xorg.conf to a CD, maybe (maybe!) #1 will mount it in init3 -- and maybe (triple maybe!) I can somehow get it to copy from CD to /etc/X11 ... I'm getting way out of my tree, and a long way onto thin ice here ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
