Since I felt kind of frustrated at the way Opensuse tripped over AIXGL, I decided to give Fedora a try. Installation went painless, but soon afterwards a problem rose up.

After the installation I was asked to reboot in order to complete the installation. The "first time"-wizard popped up, filled in all the details, and then... nothing. I saw a glimpse of a login prompt after the wizard, but it was too short to log in. Nothing more happened after that, the screen remains solid black.

What I tried so far:

* booted in runlevel 3, open the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but no EE's were present
* booted again in runlevel 3, tried system-config-display --reconfig, that seems to do something, however the screen goes black again
* Output of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file shows no "monitor"-section, only Serverlayout, Inputdevice, Device and screen. Could this be a problem?


My graphics card is a Radeon 9200. I understand that it should work out of the box, even wit compiz (which is one of the reasons to choose for FC6). Could anyone point in the right direction?

I also don't have a "monitor" section in my xorg.conf (edit: and it works fine).

Can you somehow post the content of your xorg.conf? maybe there's a hint there as to what the problem is.
(my guess: wrong driver under "driver" )

When you see the login screen (in text mode, I assume)... does it try to start X again and again? (resolving in a more or less blinking login text)

-soundwave-

I had the same problem.
The next solution solved the problem.

Create the next symbolic link as the root user in a console (this one is missing):

ln -s /usr/bin/kdeinit /usr/bin/start_kdeinit

Reboot the system and login (this is important).
You get a message that the KDE Manager is missing.
Switch to a text console (CTRL-ALT-F1).
Update your system (as the root user):

yum update

KDE is than updated and installed correctly.
Maybe you need to disable several exotic repositories.
Finally reboot again and everything should work fine.

I would post my log, but it seems that one has to post 3 replies before he can insert a link. I'll post it later on, I'll answer your questions seperately to come to my 3 posts...

First of all, X doesn't restart of tries to. It just doesn't start, and it seems that my whole pc locks up than. CTRL+ALT+BSPACE doesn't have any effect.

thanks for your reply vanstra, but how will that effect my system? I use GNOME since I do not like al the clutter from KDE (nofi ) I did a "yum upgrade" yesterday, but that also did not solve my problem

Edit: here the link to my Xorg.0.log : click

The solution is indeed for KDE.
Try to boot in text mode and try to start with 'startx' and see what errors are generated.

There are none, to be precise. Everything just locks up, CTRL+ALT+BASKSPACE does not return me to the terminal also. It just goes, well, black...

Maybe it's worth re-installing... I don't know what will be different, but IF it will work... it would take less time than fixing it manually and since it's a fresh install as it is... you won't lose any installed programs, because you didn't get a chance to install any yet...

My xorg.conf can be found here. You make a valid point about reinstalling, but what if it happens again?

try changing the driver to "fglrx"
so it will look like this:
Might it be that at installation, FC6 didn't install the "kmod-fglrx" packages but still configured them to be in use ("radeon" driver). That would be odd, but worth a try.


EDIT: if that doesn't work either, then try changing it to "vesa", in case it didn't install any fglrx drivers, so that is the default driver.

Good luck!
-soundwave-

Changed everything to this now:


------------------------------------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 28-65
VertRefresh 56-78
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024*768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

--------------------------------------------------------


This however gives me an "out of range"-error from my monitor. It's a start I guess... Searched the internet for the correct rates for my CMO a150X1, but found only some incomprehensible asian sites. I know the solution is near, just need to find the correct rates

this might be a stupid question, but.... does it work now?

Ah, sorry if that wasn't clear No, unfortunately not. I keep getting an "out of range"-error from my monitor, and I'm then forced to make my way back to the terminal. I used the conf I posted above, but I think the problem lies within the horizsync and vertrefresh. If you know of values that will work, I'm listening. But thanks a lot for your help already!

Those values should be found in your monitor's manual.
And probably on the manufacturer's website...


Hope that works.

That might be a slight problem. I've lost the manual after I moved from my parents place to my own last year. CMO has a website, but I can't find this old model there. It seems that Liquidvideo and CMV has the same model (a150x1) but I can't find anything of them either.