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Fedora 6 X

I installed fedora 6 using text mode.
I did it this way because there is a bug and it crashes when I try to select some packages.
Installed fine.
I cannot start X.
Typed setup and tried to run the x configuraton tool and I get a blank screen and must reboot.

I put an xorg.conf file from another computer into /etc/X11/xorg.conf

startx
Crashes and give the errors below.

(EE) failed to load module generic
(EE) no drivers available
May have been a "display not found" also, I'm not at that computer right now.

I believe it's a a matrox card.
Worked fine with fedora 5.

wesly_chen

> I put an xorg.conf file from another computer into /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You just override the driver setting for your X.

As root, run
# setup
to re-configure your graphic card driver.

Ted22

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If you read my original question, it says I ran setup and the x configuration tool.
I get a blank screen and have to reboot.

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Gns

"I beleive...." is a far cry from "I know it is ...";-).

Really, without more _real_ data, we can only guess... And not that well either.
Doing the find doesn't tell us if the card really is a matrox. The lspci does though;-).

-- Glenn

gheist

Falling back to "generic" instead of "vga" basically means that 1) There is no videocard in system 2) System is not i386/amd64 3) there are no x11 drivers.

Gns

No argument there Andrew, just saying that we really need to know HW details to be able to give the correct help... But you knew that;-).

Cheers
-- Glenn