help on reinstall

[FSE]

hi. i just reinstalled FC6, i'm still fairly new to the linux, anyway on the reinstall i can't get past the gooey like login. any suggestions how i can over come this?

thanks.

[JN4OldSchool]

Type your user name and password?

Sorry, I know you have a problem but could you be a bit more descriptive?

[FSE]

well i type in my username and password. and then i can do commands. but i want to use the OS. so i can do all the yum commands, but i'm not sure how to get into the OS from there. thanks for the quick reply.

[JN4OldSchool]

in other words you have no GUI interface (X)? When you log in, are you on a nice greeter screen with a picture or is it just a DOS looking screen? What kind of video card do you have? You say this is a "reinstall", have you had these problems with Fedora before? Or is this your first time with Fedora? You may need a graphics driver, but at this point this is just a WAG on my part.

[FSE]

well. i tried to upgrade to fedora 7. and it was too much deleting. so i put my fc6 back and did a reinstall. i have only been using fedora for a few months.

i do have a DOS looking screen. i can try to reinstall my video card driver.

[leigh123@linux]

well i type in my username and password. and then i can do commands. but i want to use the OS. so i can do all the yum commands, but i'm not sure how to get into the OS from there. thanks for the quick reply.

try

su
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and change the driver in device section to vesa

after saving the changes type

su -
gdm-restart

[FSE]

thanks. i'll go retry that now.

[FSE]

ok. sorry to bother you again. it says i don't have that file. i tried to install X11 and it said i already have it. also, i can't log in using putty if that helps at all.

[JN4OldSchool]

Try Leigh's commands again, but this time make sure the "X" in "X11" is capital. You have that file, you just typed something wrong.

edit: You can always try:

su
(root password)
yum groupinstall "Gnome Desktop Environment"

just to see what that does. Maybe something got corrupted, it has been known to happen...

[leigh123@linux]

Try it with a cap X , if this doesn't work try this ( it also has a cap X )


su -
X -configure

[FSE]

i'm starting to think i have no drivers at all pretty much. when i did the X11 (which worked after i rebooted) it said command not found on all the listings.

[jdillick]

This has worked really well for me in the past:
system-config-display --reconfig

[FSE]

hey thanks. i tried it and it wasn't reading it correct i guess. i'm trying to reinstall the drivers, but i can't find them for linux. the guy who set up the server no longer works here, so it's an adventure.