Gary wrote: > Well, I did something stupid and utterly ruined my Fedora 7 upgrade > over Core 3, sooooo, I did a fresh F7 install from scratch. > > The install process always seems to have trouble with X server "can't > find display :1" ; when installed over FC3, F7's first boot had to > reconfigure the graphics from scratch. This is because my motherboard > has an onboard VGA that I ignore in favor of a modestly superior PCI > video card. No AGP slots on this motherboard. > > I don't understand why it can't find a GUI, I installed the packages > for KDE and XFCE in addition to the default Gnome!!! And I don't know > how to start any of them manually from the hostname login! At least > with Windoze 3.1, you could just type "win" and it would start *grumble* > > Am I going to have to clear my hard drive again, install FC3 again, > and install F7 over it just to get this to work?! > >
Try typing the command 'startx' from the command prompt. It should start your graphical X-Windows platform, and from there, whichever Desktop Manager is default. I never set a machine to boot directly into X-Windows. Back when I started using *nix (in 2000), X-Windows was pretty 'iffy', and the getty console was (and still is) a much more stable way to work. If you ever have a serious problem with X-Windows, you might be happy that you are able to just boot into the graphical prompt, and fix the problem manually. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
