On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:37 AM, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I then switched to runlevel 5 and tried to login as root. > > The screen displayed some junk, but I did get a login screen of sorts. I > tried to login, the login failed but there was no comprehensible message, > the fonts were badly distorted. After that, nothing comprehensible displayed > and I could not crash X or switch to a text console. What graphics card do you have? If it's ATI, try adding "nomodeset" to the kernel boot line in grub ... MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
