What kind of monitor do you have? The vertical sync, horizontal refresh rates and max resolution specs given by the manufacturer will be of great use to you. Also, the color depth spec of your video card will help... You could also move aside the default xorg.conf file and run X -config... To run the guided setup... -Jared On 4/23/05, Chuck R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:09:36PM -0400, Jerome Walczak wrote:
vertical colored lines. I read that this can be fixed by editing the xorg.conf (or something like that) file & setting everything to defaults & that the issue is basically with the monitor being set at too high a resolution but how do I do that?
First you have to disable the graphical bootup, and boot into runlevel 3 which disables the gdm graphical login screen:
At the bootup menu, hit any key to stop the auto-boot. Then use the arrow keys to move to a Fedora Core (2.6.xx-xx) line, and hit 'e'. Then move to the kernel /vmlinuz... line and hit 'e' again. Now move to the end of that line and delete 'rhgb quiet' and replace it with a space and a three: ' 3'. Then hit enter to save the line, and finally type 'b' to boot the kernel.
You should then be able to login as root at the text console and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf using e.g. nano:
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
To start up the gdm graphical login screen afterwards, switch to runlevel 5 by typing:
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