The Evil Blackscreen

[soxs060389]

Hi all,
I just installed Fedora 10 x86_64 on my PC (Pehnom 9500, ATI Radeon Graphics 3300,..) via the disk method. It installed just fine and I started booting up. I saw that blue/light-blue/white tripple loading bar including the Fedora name, but 90% of the screen were black.

After doing some little research I tried booting without "quiet", appending "xdriver=vesa" and without "rgbh" but no chnage. I see all those OK messages in green after the loading bar did finish, but then the darkness takes over. My 24" monitor goes into idle mode and won't return.

Any ideas= I heard about vga mode but which one should I choose?


Having a look at Xorg.0.log tells me like nothing. I've got 5 of them and everyone is 0 bytes sized.

Teh strange thing is I can boot into runlevel 3 just like nothingever happened. From there I can do startx.. odd.

[PatMcLJr]

did you make a "static" xorg.conf so you can edit it and control what Xorg does when it comes up? Did you try setting the Driver to vesa?

I think leigh123 has a buch of stuff on getting the ATI's working
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503&highlight=ATI

and there is more out there too

Best of Luck,
Pat Jr

[scottro]

Not sure if this will work, but take away that rhgb quiet, as you did, and instead of using vga=whatever try

nomodeset

Sometimes, it tries to do some sort of mode setting and doesn't do it right.

WARNING. I have no experience of the ATI cards, so I may simply be wasting your time.

[soxs060389]

As mesa refused to start properly, I installed fglrx from the cli via rpmfusion. I will check this out right now.

EDIT: I catually was able to do a gdm start (only as su / sudo). I can login, but I nvere get gnome to start properly. I am stuck just right after passing my password and before the desktop loads, but I do not get any output from gdm.

[soxs060389]

OK I got now everything that far I can run init 5 and get untill login screen.

Bad news is that the problem just shifted. Now I canÄt login because I can't add users and can't login as root.
The only thing I can do is login on cli as root , useres don't work, I just gt incorrect login.

If someone could advise me to add an user just as the inital default user and make me log in, this would be kind.

What i tried was [CODE] adduser -U -m -p passwd soxs[CODE]
I don see my mistake. Sorry.

[soxs060389]

SOLVED.

I added the user via

useradd soxs
su
passwd - soxs
and now everything seems to work.