David Kaplowitz on 20 Jan 2005 15:20:44 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] fc3 conversion problem


On 09:35 Thu 20 Jan, George Gallen wrote:
> I did an fc2 -> fc3 upgrade last night.
> Everything seemed to go fine.
> 
> While it started to boot, my screen looked like a TV receiver that had no signal
>   and the horizonal and verticle were stable as well.
> 
> Then the monitor clicked into another mode, the screen looked fine.
> 
> I logged in as root, went to open the start menu, and again, I got the no signal screen
>    and it never came back.
> 
> I didn't have anymore time to play with this, so I shut it down. 
> 
> I'm hoping this is a just a 1 time thing.
> 
> Does this sound familiar? Of course, I can't go back now to fc2, so I may wind up
>    having to do a fresh fc3 install if it doesn't fix itself.
> 
> The video was fine with fc2....
>

Reinstalling would be the Windows way of fixing that issue. No need for
so much work. 

Do you still have a copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or xorg.conf as
the case may be)from FC2? Maybe you can diff the two to see what's changed.
Also, are there any errors in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (I forget what
XFree calls this log, it's been a while since I've run it)?

You have the other option of changing your /etc/inittab's Default
runlevel from 5 to 3 so that you have to manually start x instead of
having the box startx for you, this way you can tune your X server to
your liking without having to reboot. 

Good luck,

Dave

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