FC6 doesnt BOOT UP
 

Hi Guys,

I did an FC6 installation to day and all went well to the end. After the reboot grubs loads without a problem since I dual boot with Windows; when I select FC6 my screen just goes blank. i suspect that maybe my onitor (Compaq V500) has issues but I really doubt that since the GUI interface for installation works just fine. Anyone who can help

Can you boot into linux rescue mode? (I.e., From your installation DVD, enter "linux rescue", and then do the suggested "chroot" command.)

That should get you into Fedora in command-line mode, logged in as root. Then run the command cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | less to see if there are any error messages from the X server. (Use the up/down arrow and page keys to move up and down in the listing.)

I suspect that you'll find that you have no driver installed for your display card (or built-in system). Both ATI and NVIDIA have proprietary, binary-only, drivers and (since they are proprietary) Fedora (by policy) can not distribute them. If this is the case, you'll need to download the needed driver rpm from, for example, the livna repository. (If only your XP system is working, you can download it there, copy it to a floppy or USB stick, and use the rpm command in Fedora (after booting in rescue mode) to load it. (Note that the drivers may need more than one rpm file. Most have (using nvidia as an example) a kmod-nvidia-... rpm file and a nvidia-common-... rpm file that needs to be installed.)

It's possible that your X windows configuration is not happy. Have you tried going in using using one of the text based runlevels (1, 2 or 3)? I'd recommend using runlevel 3. Once in there you can dink around with your xorg.conf and run startx to see if your changes worked. /var/log/X.org.0.log will have the log from when X windows starts up. This can be helpful in seeing what's happening. Usual causes are Horz or Vert frequencies not correct on the monitor.

Just thought of another option. Boot up like you are now and see if you can get to one of your virtual terminals. Do this using Cntl+Alt+F1 through F6. You can kill your X server with Cntl+Alt+Backspace.

Bill

Hi guys,

Tried both solutions but still I nhave not managed to sort the issue.

I am getting two errors;

AIGLX:Screen 0 is not DRI capable

Error: Cant open display : :0 /usr/bin/startkde : Line 124 /root/.kde/share/config/startup config : No such file or directory.

any idea what might be wrong.

PS:I logged in through runlevel 3. Virtual terminals were not working, after killing X it would just blink and then go blank.

Thanks for the ideas though.

I haven't had the problem you are going through, but here is what I would do to try and fix it. I believe the message AIGLX:Screen 0 is not DRI capable can be avoided if you comment out that section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. According to the xorg.conf man page it is optional so should not be a problem.

The other message about a missing file is a little strange. When KDE or Gnome open the first time they create directories and files in your home directory. These keep track of any changes you make to the desktop. Since you have had trouble getting it to open it might be incomplete. Try removing (or renaming if you prefer) the /root/.kde directory. That should force KDE to make a new one.

Your virtual terminals were actually working. That was the X windows shutdown causing your screen to go blank. When X windows comes up it adds another virtual terminal, usually Cntl+Alt+F7. If you were to go back to the virtual terminal (Cntl+Alt+F1 perhaps) that you started from it would show you essentially the same thing that gets sent to the log file. That's a good way to debug what is going on. Hope this helps.

Bill