LinuxQuestions.org
Help answer threads with 0 replies.
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > Fedora > Fedora - Installation
User Name
Password
Fedora - Installation This forum is for the discussion of installation issues with Fedora.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 02-09-2007, 10:13 AM   #1
SteveT
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: South East UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 16
Posts: 69

Rep: Reputation: 15
FC6 - Starts In Character Mode (Fc4 Worked fine)


I have two laptops - DELL C540 and a DELL C610 both running fine with FC4 (install was a dream)
The older of the two is a backup laptop, so I have decided to move that onto FC6, before upgrading my prime laptop.
FC6 has gone in as a fresh install, in graphical mode, OK - or so it appeared. But when I boot and try to log in as root, it is in character mode. I have seeen some other threads re ATI-Radeon, but in those cases they use system-config-display to help resolve the issue - I don't seem to have that on the system - any ideas as to what I need to do to get the graphical environment to work?
 
Old 02-09-2007, 10:26 AM   #2
SteveT
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: South East UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 16
Posts: 69

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 15
Starting X manually

If I startX manually the error that is thrown in the X log is related to the mouse - I get:

(EE) No input driver matching 'synaptics'
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices

It then resets the RADEON display.

So it looks like FC doesn't support the synaptics touch pad - is there a way round this?
 
Old 02-09-2007, 11:44 AM   #3
SteveT
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: South East UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 16
Posts: 69

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 15
Gnome????

OK - so now I've grabbed a synaptics RPM and installed that via YUM and I can now start X.

BUT - how do I now get Gnome to start?

I'd never thought about it before - but how does Gnome get kicked off - ie what config file says that user's desktop is to be Gnome or KDE or ....

At the moment, after I start X I get a terminal session and Firefox started in some basic graphical environment (like the old RH 6) - presumably this is some form of default window manager..(looks like twm from a ps list)

Looking in my root's home, I do have .gconf/d directories and a .gnome2 - so why no gnome?
 
Old 02-11-2007, 02:48 AM   #4
SteveT
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: South East UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 16
Posts: 69

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 15
Duff Discs?

I ntried to reinstall and got it so that it started ok.
It seems that on the first install, I had retries while reading the discs and that seems to have screwed up the install somehow. Sods law, when reinstalling I partitioned the discs incorrectly and ended up not being able to upgrade the system with the 217 updates that it finds - so I've had to reinstall. Each time on reinstall, if I get retries on the discs, the install takes forever and screws up X/synaptics.

I'm going to try burning a fresh set of discs and see how those install.
 
Old 02-12-2007, 01:54 AM   #5
SteveT
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: South East UK
Distribution: Fedora Core 16
Posts: 69

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 15
Duff Discs

The whole problem was caused by duff install discs.
I used my prime laptop to extract the iso images from the CD's (dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FD6D?.iso where ? was the disc number) and then used the sha1sum to make sure that the check sums were the same as the original downloadable images. I then used nautilus (right click on the FD6D?.iso and choose Write...) to write the image back to a clean cd (at X12 speed).
Using these cd's I didn't get any 'blah.rpm missing .... retry?' messages on install. The install was far faster and went in clean.

So even though the 'Retry' option seemed to work fine, something must have been corrupted.

The odd thing is that the extract of the ISOs from the original install CDs on my main laptop created correctly summed images (so they must have been correct on the discs themselves - ie were burnt ok originally) - and they passed the check media test before the first install.

Posted this just in case someone else gets the same problem.
 
  


Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
installed puppy on usb flash drive, worked fine glorsplitz Puppy 8 09-30-2008 10:19 AM
How can I change display mode from character mode to graph mode wuzhong Linux - Hardware 1 08-08-2004 09:36 AM
cant get gui to work in RH9, but worked fine in mandrake 10 sgcam2000 Linux - Hardware 0 07-13-2004 05:28 AM
Sound worked fine during installation, but not after... Shekers Linux - Hardware 3 05-31-2004 06:16 PM
GNU autotools in Rh 9 broken? Worked fine in 7.3... rylan76 Red Hat 1 04-17-2004 02:27 PM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > Fedora > Fedora - Installation

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:58 PM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration