Cannot get X to work

rhaynal · #1 30th March 2005, 05:24 AM

Hi,

I have a Radeon X700 graphics board and a Hyundai ImageQuest L70S (LCD monitor). The install did not reconize my monitor and FC does not have the ATI graphic drivers. How can I get X to work?

I have removed the rhgb option from grub and can login at run level3 as root. The only configuation command I can seem to get to work is Xorg -configure. It give me an xorg.conf to tweek but so far I've not been able to hit a combination that will get X running.

salpula · #2 30th March 2005, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by rhaynal

Hi,

I have a Radeon X700 graphics board and a Hyundai ImageQuest L70S (LCD monitor). The install did not reconize my monitor and FC does not have the ATI graphic drivers. How can I get X to work?

I have removed the rhgb option from grub and can login at run level3 as root. The only configuation command I can seem to get to work is Xorg -configure. It give me an xorg.conf to tweek but so far I've not been able to hit a combination that will get X running.

JHow is X not working. Does it just hang? Does it lock up the entire system, just it just error and exit?

rhaynal · #3 30th March 2005, 06:08 PM

It hangs with a blank screen. I cannot break out of it and have to reboot.

salpula · #4 30th March 2005, 08:33 PM

see if you can bring up a shell using ctrl+alt+f5, I was able to do so when I had a simialr problem for FC4.
In order to get around it I installed all system config utils, admin utils, x development, x packages, gnome packages, and gnome development all in addition to a regular workstation install.
it might be worth a try.

BTW - I feel its more likely to be gnome problem than an X problem but I could damn wrong.

k4dgw · #5 6th June 2005, 07:21 AM

Did you resolve this issue?

james_in_denver · #6 6th June 2005, 08:38 AM

Just use the generic "VESA" driver, when you get that working, make a backup of your xorg.conf file, and then you mithg try to install the ATI drivers...

Just what I would do....take it or leave it....

fadhilmarus · #7 6th June 2005, 09:25 AM

maybe..just maybe...is the FC4Tx kernel enables the PCIe support? *i'm newbie after all

k4dgw · #8 6th June 2005, 01:01 PM

FC4T3 is already loading the VESA driver and X is unable to run.

pdcoleman · #9 9th June 2005, 01:23 AM

FC4T3,2,1 has not worked for several graphic systems. I have a box with a Trident Cyberblade/i1(Via). Another tester has a Cirrus system that behaves just like mine. X starts with a white screen. Dropping into a terminal the top and bottom lines are blue and the first and last characters are blue. I think GCC4 is breaking something either in the driver module or the kernel itself. I tried ubuntu's development release that is also compiled with GCC4 and get the same results.

If X does not work in the graphical install do not install FC4.

k4dgw · #10 9th June 2005, 03:22 AM

Guess that is part of the frustration. Knoppix runs fine, Unbuntu correctly detects the card. But X still has issues. Guess I could work through them, but I currently find Unbuntu annoying, having to sudo everything.

kylemaxwell · #11 9th June 2005, 04:13 PM

X had trouble on my system during the install of FC4T3 (AMD64 running a PCI-E nVidia 6600 graphics card) but (mostly) works OK post-install. A few hiccups from time to time that are somewhat annoying but I'm able to get work done.

k4dgw · #12 9th June 2005, 10:17 PM

I just tried a text install of FC3 x86. Installed, updated, then updated the yum.conf according to the FAQ. Installed the ATI drivers and then tried Xorg -configure. It neither works, nor generates an xorg.conf file (yes it was done as root). I have tried the same thing with FC3 x86_64, and with FC4T3. I can only generate an xorg.conf before I do all the updates, it won't work afterwards. I just want to get the system usable for now. Currently I have a fully updated FC3 system that I am not able to run X on, what do I need to do from here?