F-10 text install, now want GUI
For whatever reason, a system that I installed F-10 on didn't like the display and had to be installed via text mode. Now I want to go back and try to get X working. In the past, system-config-display would get me started. What is the process with F-10? I thought I'd look at a working F-10 system but I don't seem to even have /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Fwiw, F-8 was installed and working fine on this system before. -- C Lance Moxley http://moxley.us/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F-10 text install, now want GUI
--- On Thu, 11/27/08, C Lance Moxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: C Lance Moxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: F-10 text install, now want GUI To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 7:05 AM For whatever reason, a system that I installed F-10 on didn't like the display and had to be installed via text mode. Now I want to go back and try to get X working. In the past, system-config-display would get me started. What is the process with F-10? I thought I'd look at a working F-10 system but I don't seem to even have /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Fwiw, F-8 was installed and working fine on this system before. -- C Lance Moxley http://moxley.us/ -- system-config-display was depracted since the native detection works for most combinations, but not all :(, I have been also at this end, but youc an fix it as following: You have two options 1) as root user (su -c ) # yum install system-config-display and use $ system-config-display to setup/configure your system 2) use # Xorg -configure You should see something like Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new To test the server, run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new' test it using that and if it works, you as root user (su -) copy the file over to /etc/X11 # cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf Then change as root user # /etc/inittab from 3 to 5 so that the system starts in level 5 with gui :) Regards, Antonio -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F-10 text install, now want GUI
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system-config-display was depracted since the native detection works for most combinations, but not all :(, I have been also at this end, but youc an fix it as following: You have two options 1) as root user (su -c ) # yum install system-config-display and use $ system-config-display to setup/configure your system This is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much! -- C Lance Moxley http://moxley.us/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F-10 text install, now want GUI
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:12:07 -0800 (PST) Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: system-config-display was depracted since the native detection works for most combinations Gosh, I hope system-config-display doesn't go away. I have been (reluctantly) using the proprietary ATI driver from Livna on this computer up to this point. I updated it to F10 last night and it wouldn't finish booting at runlevel 5. (Kept flashing Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map on the screen.) I rebooted again to runlevel 3 and ran yum remove kmod-fglrx, then yum upgrade. After that I rebooted again to runlevel 3 and logged back in to my usual desktop but the image was squished. That's the reason why I started using the proprietary ATI driver in the first place -- I couldn't get the open-source one to drive my screen at 1680x1050. I then ran system-config-display and told it to use the raedon driver instead of the vesa driver that it had defaulted to. (My card is an ATI X1550). When I logged out the whole shebang locked up so I had to restart it by turning the power off, but after I rebooted everything works fine at the proper resolution. So the moral of the story is, there's no longer any need to use the proprietary ATI video driver if you have a widescreen monitor. Which suits me fine. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
