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: telinit 5