During boot screen goes blank

[VampMB]

This weekend I formatted my Gateway PC to dual boot into Windows XP and Fedora Core 2. I did this at my boyfriend's place with his peripherals (note: monitor) and it worked fine. On hooking it up in my room, during the boot into Fedora, the screen disappears and the monitor displays a "VGA NOT SUPPORT" message (basically, it's not recognizing the monitor). My boyfriend gave me sketchy directions to go to my "/etc/X11/", type "Xorg.config" and look for/change info in Monitor 0. That's grand and all, but I can't do diddly if nothing's displaying to the screen.

Where/how do I do this? Please help, I'm all new and stuff!

-MB

[tashirosgt]

Boot in the text mode from grub. I've rarely done this myself, but these directions probably work:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=76800&highlight=grub+text+mode
Don't examine /etc/X11/xorg.conf with gedit since that requires the X Window server, which won't be running. Just look at it by using:
less /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(use the up and down arrows and 'q' to quit)
Then try the 'joe' editor or the 'vi' editor, which will work in the text mode. Edit some scratch file to practice with them.

Better read some documentation first if you pick 'vi' (vim). Otherwise it won't even be cleaer how to quit it, much less edit anything. Simpler is:
joe myjunk.txt