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bhall7
5th August 2005, 04:04 PM
I have an old AMD K6 350 Mhz board, 196 MB RAM, and an old Trident vid card (forgive me, I don't have the exact model), and 6 GB HD. I tried several different Linux distros, including a couple live CD's, and I have installed FC4, the installation seems to go just fine, however when it finally boots, I get a garbled image on the screen (I can see the mouse moving around and I can tell I'm on the login page). My question is:

How can I select which video card driver Fedora uses before it actually boots? How can I exit X window manager and get to a cmd prompt once it boots into the GUI?

TIA,

BHall

CuCullin
5th August 2005, 06:23 PM
ctrl-alt-F1 (up to F6) will get you to the command line.

Then edit your xorg.conf

bhall7
5th August 2005, 06:39 PM

Cool, thanks for the post. I'll give it a try.