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Re: fedora 20 installing

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Bill Cunningham wrote on 16. May 2015:
>
> "Andreas Kohlbach" <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote in message 
> news:874mndzjb6.fsf@usenet.ankman.de...
>>
>> Can you boot into safe mode? If you can call xrandr which lists you
>> available resolutions, and the one currently set labeled with an *. Since
>> you are in safe-mode it might not list all (higher) available resolutions.
>>
>> Or press CTRL-ALT-F1 if safe-mode isn't working either. You might be able
>> to get a login prompt. Login in with your root password because you might
>> need to change things on the system.
>>
>> Open /var/log/Xorg.0.log and go all to the end, and slowly scroll up,
>> until you might see the cause of the crash (if X crashed at all). Often a
>> viewer called "less" is installed you can use to open /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> with.
>>
>> In case you are also online already (just without a working X), and have
>> a text browser installed, like Lynx, links or w3m. You could then try to
>> find a solution doing a web search for what ever the Xorg log complaints
>> about.
>
>     Well I just zero'd out my mbr and reinstalled. I get tired of trying to 
> figure every little thing for this.

That is the Windows method.

>     It seems to be working now. If a fresh install doesn't do it. You are in 
> a bad situation. It seems to have worked this time though.

If Linux might have a problem there to identify the hardware it might
just happen again in the future. But reading logs and then trying to
solve problems doing a web search or asking here can solve almost any
Linux related problem in future.
-- 
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.

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  Re: fedora 20 installing Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-15 16:18 -0400
    Re: fedora 20 installing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-05-16 14:34 -0400
      Re: fedora 20 installing Andreas Kohlbach <may15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-05-16 15:45 -0400
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