[sllug-members]: Newbie Needs Help

[Paul Koshevoy]

After the screen goes blank, wait a couple of seconds then press 
Ctrl-Alt-F1 -- that will switch you to the first text console. You can 
log in there as root. Then type telinit 3 -- this will take you to the 
command line runmode. You should stay there until you sort out issues 
between your graphics card and the X server. Actually, until you resolve 
those issues you should disable graphical login -- edit /etc/inittab and 
change id:5:initdefault:  to  id:3:initdefault:  --  this will prevent 
your box from starting the X server on every reboot. You can still start 
the X server from the command line using the startx command. You can 
kill the X server using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. You can reboot using 
Ctrl-Alt-Delete. As far as configuring your X server -- it would help if 
you would post information about your graphics card, display, and your 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file here so we can take a look at it.

This should get you started.
    Paul.


Jared Hackett wrote:
> Hi I'm Jared and I just joined sllug. I have been trying to dual boot 
> linux and windows. my windows is already set up and I just bought a 
> new hard drive the the linux half. I've tried installing ubuntu 7.04 
> and fedora core 7 both screens go blank after the intiall install and 
> I don't know how to change it fedora correctly found my graphics card 
> and the graphical install worked well but when I tried to boot it runs 
> through a screen of text and blank nothing else. so if anyone would be 
> willing to help a noob it would be greatly appreciated.
> Jared
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