RH 7.3 does not start X !!
Hello!
I updated my home pc from RH 7.2 to 7.3. The update was completely succesfull, but after the first reboot (after the upgrade) I discovered that the system does NOT recognize my monitor anymore (strangely, since this monitor, an "olivetti", worked perfectly with RH 7.2, and I only made an upgrade and not a fresh installation). Now I obtain a dark screen without possibility to login with X. What could I do? Can I start RH in text mode? How? Or should you suggest to make a fresh installation in order to bypass this problem...? ...Thanks in advance for any help ! Marco |
I think the GUI is not configure properly after the upgrade to 7.3, u can press ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the x-server, this will allow u to go to text prompt, and from there u can login and then do Xconfigurator to set things right.
to change from GUI login to text login, u may check your /etc/inittab file, try understanding the different run level, to change to text login, simply change the statement id:5:default(something like that, can't remember) to 3. luck! |
go for Xconfigurator again
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I wonder if I can tell GRUBE to perform a not grafical boot of linux, since it seems impossible to kill the X server... could I? Thanks again, Marco |
To boot into non-graphical mode, when you get the grub menu, select linux and then press the ' E ' key. You'll get a screen that will list the lines from the menu.lst file. Look for the ' kernel ' line and select it. Press the ' E ' key and add init=? to the end of the line. Next, press ENTER and then the ' B ' key. Replace the ? with the runlevel that you want. If you want single user mode, use the number 1 ( one ). You could also use the word single instead of init=1
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Onestly, I am not sure of what the problem may be. At any rate, I think that also a fresh installation would not bypass this problem: in fact, one of the first message displayed when I try to start a fresh installation is "Unable to probe monitor"... Maybe that my monitor configuration is recognised by RH 7.2 and not by RH 7.3 ? And why I can't manage to start in no graphical mode? :confused: Anyway, thanks to all for your kind help! Marco |
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