an f10 install, minimum defaults from purchased dvd. Only sda1 is formatted by installer; /boot not a separate partition. Grub initially installed into 1st sector of sda1, left mbr alone. Later Grub also installed into mbr of sda. Currently booting into level 3, experiencing trouble with X-server In a prior thread, Re: f10dvd installs but won't boot, David wrote: > Many people on this list will have much greater expertise than I to > solve your X problem. My *non-expert* suggestions are that you could: > 1) yum update xorg-x11-drv-mga no help, nothing to update > 5) Look at the xorg.conf of your previous Fedora install for ideas, if > it is working ok on the same hardware. yes, it is. > 6) Try to create your own xorg.conf based on it and/or your tmp ones. > Your xorg.log seems to be using the correct driver but reports "No > monitor specified", you could try adding a "Monitor" block to your > xorg.conf, particularly if you have one that works for your previous > Fedora. I've had to do similar in the past. Adding just the Monitor section seemed to work, at least initially: ------start of xorg.conf------------------ # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection ## monitor section from fc5 xorg.conf Section "Monitor" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "NEC MultiSync LCD1830" DisplaySize 360 290 HorizSync 24.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 55.0 - 85.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "mga" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection ----------end of xorg.conf--------- Now seems caught in some sort of mix of errors from X server, Window manager, startx: [root@localhost ~]# system-config-display -v Read configuration file /etc/xorg.conf Trying with card: u'Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP' Writing temporary config file to /tmp/tmpNdA6Fexorg.config Trying to start X server Waiting for X server to start...log located in /var/log/Xorg.setup.log 1...2...3...4...5....X server started successfully. Backing up /etc/xorg.conf to /etc/xorg.conf.backup Writing configuration to /etc/xorg.conf Removing old /etc/X11/X Creating /etc/X11/X symlink Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on display ':17.0'. [root@localhost ~]# it says "X server started successfully" but then " Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on display ':17.0'." With that error, it may be silly to try startx, but i did anyway: ]# cat startxlog [root@localhost ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3606 xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up. xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [root@localhost ~]# rm .X0-lock then another startx # cat startxlog2 [root@localhost ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3633 _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running xinit: Server error. [root@localhost ~]# [root@bootp root]# ls -l X* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43222 May 8 09:28 Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 743 May 10 09:26 Xorg.setup.log.may10 why no current(may 10) Xorg log? [root@bootp root]# cat Xorg.setup.log.may10 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 i686 Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 23 23:37:54 EDT 2009 i686 Build Date: 10 March 2009 07:20:48PM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-15.fc10 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (++) Log file: "/dev/null", Time: Sun May 10 07:56:43 2009 (++) Using config file: "/tmp/tmpNdA6Fexorg.config" [root@bootp root]# no errors seen from this setup log I have done some googling on the Window manager error 104 but so far no help to me. Further steps? 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