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Re: fedora 20 installing

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Bill Cunningham wrote on 14. May 2015:
>
>     I don't know if anyone has run into this problem or not. I am still 
> using f20 haven't went to f21 yet. When I install the netinstall which has 
> never given me problems before. Well as soon as it starts to boot my monitor 
> goes blank. There must be some kind of resolution issue here. I tried 
> installing at a lower resolution and everything installed well but I can't 
> see everything. My monitor is 1024x768. It will not accept that resolution 
> anymore.
>
>     A lower res will install but I can't see anything. I tried resetting the 
> monitor and this still happens. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

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.
-- 
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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fedora 20 installing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-05-14 18:53 -0400
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