On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:42:31 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:35 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:21:41 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: > > >> Disaster -- but I have no idea whether Frank's xorg.conf had >> anything at all to do with it. > > Gulp ;) [...] <grin> > Do the hardware tests, and then have another crack at it. I plugged it back in, booted to init 3, moved the xorg.conf it had to xorg.conf.fmurph and the backup back into xorg.conf, and then ran nano -w against that -- changing "vesa" to "openchrome" but leaving all else alone. Then I tried system-config-display again; usually, when I do that as root from an init 3 prompt, it lets me use the minimal gui it gives me. This time, however, the cursor immediately froze, and I couldn't even get to the hardware tab. Keyboard commands did nothing visible. The reset button eventually got me a reboot; I changed the driver back to vesa, and system-config-display opened properly -- with nothing to change. I logged out, and back in as user; did su - and then "init 5" instead of startx. It hesitated a moment, gave me the normal login screen, and let me log in. It looks pretty normal; but neither Galeon, nor Epiphany, nor Firefox (the three browsers I've tried so far) can connect. I had to get into the little system-config-network (launcher showing two monitors on one pipe) to make a connection; but xinet and privoxy were both already running. Yum update couldn't connect, either. According to bugbuddy, epiphany has just crashed. The very bottommost line of Firefox was doing a Saint Vitus dance, back and forth. that stopped when I told it to work offline, and didn't start again when I rescinded that; but it still doesn't connect. Neither does Opera, nor Pan. Stay tuned. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.51, Firefox 3.0 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
