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I recently installed Fedora core 3. During the graphical install, I couldn't configure my monitor. When the install finished, Fedora was booting ok, and then when it switched to the graphical interface, I saw the status bar rise a bit, and then my monitor shut off. It seems that the computer is still booting, but I have no monitor. Any ideas?
Thanks,
tbrickn
You should be able to boot into text mode by typing "linux 3" or "single" at your boot prompt...from there you can try to fix it.
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Thanks for the response. I guess I don't really know what I'm trying to fix. I don't know if I need a video driver or if it's some setting for the monitor. My video card is a ati 9800 pro. My monitor is a generic 19" crt.
tbrickn
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If you are just getting a blank screen and it's not dumping you back into text mode then it sounds like your card is working OK and it is just your monitor configuration that cannot display the output. I am unsure as to what X configuration program fedora uses, xf86cfg and Xconfigurator often come with most distros. Perhaps posting up your /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) or xorg.conf file would help. This is the actual file used for configuration. Try setting your monitor to be a generic type or try running at a lower resolution....
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Just thought of another idea....do you have a bootable distro like knoppix? If so, boot off the CD and copy the XF86Config/xorg.conf file onto a floppy and use that one instead.
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I don't think it's anything to do with X. It's the framebuffer console driver used by the kernel. The fb driver(s) sometimes have problems with some hardware combinations and can cause the monitor to shut off.
There are a few things you can try, e.g. adding vga=normal to the kernel boot parameters (easy to do if you get a grub menu at boot). But you may find you have to use a non-framebuffer enabled kernel.
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I reinstalled Fedora. When I get to the point in the setup where I would configure the monitor, I am not able to choose any monitor. Not even a generic crt, which is what I have. I am new to linux and am throuroughly confused. I have Knoppix 3.8, which is what got me interested in running a Linux distro in the first place. Any help is solving this problem is greatly appreciated, but remember, I am new to Linux and need detailed instructions. Thanks again
tbrickn
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I haven't tried any installing for a long time and I don't know how FC3 operates exactly but it sounds like you haven't reached the bootloader installation step yet and that will be a problem unless you can change to installing from the outset with a non-framebuffer kernel. The different distros all work slightly differently and provide different options and ways of doing things.
If no-one here knows how to install Fedora with a non-framebuffer kernel (if necessary) and get the ATI 9800 working under X and the documentation available to you isn't helpful enough, try a different distro. Did Knoppix work okay? Some distros have better installation docs and online support than others - Gentoo is famously very good (especially with regard to the ATI/nVidia cards, like yours, that need binary only drivers for full functionality) - but it's intrinsically more difficult to install.
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