On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 19:40 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > Craig responded: > > boot F10 in runlevel 3 > login as root > yum update mkinitrd > yum update > yum install system-config-display > system-config-display --reconfig > > If you do all that, can run 'startx' and be happy, I suppose you are > good. > > Craig > -------------------------------- > jbyers: > all went ok except last, > system-config-display --reconfig > which fails with > > Couldn't start X server on card 0 > Error, failed to start X server. > > tried it twice > once still using old kernel > once using new kernel > > same result on both > > the stanza does work now without scsimodescan > > ie here is the new stanza, with new kernel, > as modified by me to remove scsimodscan > title Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686) noscsimodescn > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=449a78aa- > d4d5-4e91-bf9c-5833d7218c8f 3 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.img > > this again allows booting to level 3 > so Craig's update method has cured that problem. > > I also did > useradd byers > passwd byers > > and > yum install emacs > so at least i have a text editor i understand. > > Any ideas on the failing X server? > ---- not really but /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.setup.log should be able to tell you/us what the problem is. If you do post the Xorg.0.log to the list, you might want to also include output of 'lspci -v' too Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
