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just yesterday I was rolling in the joy FC2 has brought me, and today
it was different. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, X could not be
initiallized, it came up as a blank screen. Windows doesn't work
because recently I "took some of it's precious, (unnessicary) space and
files." Any ideas on what this might be? Knoppix works fine though.
THanks ahead,
poly-p man
þó¡ÿ-Þõ!ý m@ñ wrote:[color=blue]
> just yesterday I was rolling in the joy FC2 has brought me, and today
> it was different. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, X could not be
> initiallized, it came up as a blank screen. Windows doesn't work
> because recently I "took some of it's precious, (unnessicary) space and
> files." Any ideas on what this might be? Knoppix works fine though.
> THanks ahead,
> poly-p man
>[/color]
We have many ideas. Try this one for example: switch to a console
(Ctrl-Alt-F1) and type:
less /var/log/XFree86.0.log
and look for lines starting with (EE)
And next time something doesn't work as expected, check the files in
/var/log - they usually tell you what's wrong.
Mihai
I had a similar problem regarding X during my switch to FC3. Here is
what I did to get it working
a) go to runlevel 3
b) run system-config-display --reconfigure
--set-resolution=your_resolution
c) restart or go to runlevel 5
I guess the config files had to be recreated...
Spake þó¡ÿ-Þõ!ý m@ñ:[color=blue]
> Knoppix works fine though.[/color]
I know very little about Fedora Core, so I can't help there.
I *can* tell you that KNOPPIX can be installed onto your hard disk;
before Ubuntu came out it was considered the easiest way to install
Debian on an ix86 box.
The exact procedure for installing KNOPPIX changed a while back. If
you're interested, tell me what version you are using and I'll explain
how to install it.
--
Trent Buck, Student Errant
I went on a 30-day diet... I lost 30 days.