Linux Fedora 6

[zarahel]

I´m new to linux...never worked with it before so u have to excuse my ignorance!

Anyway,I´ve installed Fedora 6 and after the installation when it boots for the first time the monitor goes black and the "Frequency Over range" message appears!After that the system just freezes up

I´m using a vga onboard with 64M vga share memory size...I´m preaty sure that´s the problem but it´s my office computer and there´s not much I can do!Does anybody know how to deal with this?

btw,this is my xorg config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

 

[zeland]

If you can boot into init3, run Fedora's setup utility and choose X Configuration. You should be able to setup your display card and monitor settings if they are not set correctly.

--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[RhythmAce]

If it's freezing up you won't be able to make the changes to boot into run level 3. What you can do is use your recover disc and boot into text mode. The first sceen that pops up should have help screens that you select via the function keys. These show you how to enter each start mode. Login as root and run "setup" as zeland suggested.

 

[zeland]

Seeing as zarahel managed to show us his xorg.conf file means that he should be text mode.

There are 2 way for you to get into text mode on a working system without using a recovery disk.

1. If you Linux machine boots but you can't see the GUI (not hung/frozen), you can press Ctrl + Alt + F1 to bring you into a text console. Going back to the GUI is Ctrl + Alt + F7. If you can see the text console login, you can login and change the run level.

2. When you are in the GRUB boot menu, hit the "E" key to edit a boot entry. On the next screen, scroll down to the line that starts with the word kernel. Hit the "E" key again to edit this line. Add the word single at the end of the line. Hit Enter to accept the changes then hit the "B" key to boot. This will bring you into a text console.

--== Anything can go wrong. It's just a matter of how far wrong it will go till people think its right. ==--

 

[zarahel]

Ok,so I´ve changed my xorg configuration.I´ve changed my default depth and my depth to 32 and the boot sequence works...but when it goes to start the X server it gives me an error:
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"Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface).It is likely that is not set up correctly."
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Then it asks me if i want to configure my X server...it goes into command mode,asks me for my root password, and when I type it it says:

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"Couldn´t start X server on card 0
Couldn´t start X server with old config, trying with a fresh configuration"
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After that the monitor goes black, the "Frequency Over range" message appears and the system freezes up again!Don´t know what to do now.Any suggestions?

 

[zarahel]

Btw...I´ve checked my Xorg.0.log and I´ve seen the errors in the following lines:

"(EE) VESA(0): Weight given (000) is inconsistent with the depth (32)

(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration."


Anybody knows how to solve it?

 

[zarahel]

Ok...so I´ve finally figured out the problem and solved it!I´m using Linux right now,but I have one final problem:my network configurations! I´ve configured the ip address,subnet,dns,hostname,etc and I can ping all the machines in my Lan...but everytime I try to access the internet I can´t!Somehow I´m limited to my lan and can´t get out of it! Is it necessary to do something else with linux besides the basic network configurations so it can access internet?