Install problem in Fedora core 6(Guru and expert)

January 8th, 2007, 3:49 am

when i install FC6 i follow the step by step

first boot in FC6...............

after the installitions i having problem with the first boot sequence i cant go to the desktop my monitor is paint it black.............i thought its ok then i leave my pc alone when i get back after 1hr nothing happen its just like black screen no desktop...........what is wrong in my installitions..........need your help..i am going crazy..........

if its ok can someone make a step by step procedure how to install the FC6..........

January 8th, 2007, 7:02 am

Either the boot disk is bad or for some reason, it's not loading the video drivers. Did you burn the CD yourself? Is there are video card in the PC or are you using the onboard chipset?

January 8th, 2007, 7:08 am

yes i am using ATII Radeon Video card.............there is no error on my disk its perpeck.............

January 8th, 2007, 7:16 am

Then connect the monitor cable to the onboard chipset. That's the vertical connection. It could be that the drivers on the disk aren't compatible or they just aren't loading.

January 8th, 2007, 7:56 am

do you have any other operating systems installed? if so, what OS?
if you do, you could boot into that to check the logs to see whats happening or whats not happening.

January 16th, 2007, 3:15 am

nope its clean no OS install.............kindly give some step by step or a guide how to install it properly...........

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January 16th, 2007, 8:25 am

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Then connect the monitor cable to the onboard chipset.

I have a feeling that the installation worked. But like Don2007 said FC6 does not support your current video card. So if you plug your monitor into the onboard and remove the ATI card it should work fine.

January 16th, 2007, 9:02 am

i really wouldn't think it would be the video card that's the problem...i've NEVER had a problem with any of my ATI cards working with fedora on default installs. and i've been doing it since FC3 and an ATI Radeon 9600.

i have a question for the OP... what happens if you try to boot fedora, and once you get that black screen try pressing CTRL+ALT+F1
does it bring you to a command line?

January 16th, 2007, 9:30 am

If it does, what is he going to do when he gets there?

January 16th, 2007, 11:03 am

login and open up his xorg.conf file to see what driver the x server is trying to use for his video card.

which to do so, he would login with the root user and use the password he provided during the installation process, then enter the command:
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
go to down the video card subsection and post what it says for the driver.
press ctrl+x to exit

if it says nano can't be found,

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
find the same subsection and post what it says for the driver.
press shift+q, q <enter> to exit

January 16th, 2007, 3:11 pm

X server? Wasn't the original problem the basic install? I just looked at the original post again. Now I'm not sure what the problem is. I would have given a totally different answer if I had thought it was an X windows problem.

January 16th, 2007, 5:55 pm

well the x server is installed with the original stall. as is gnome/kde.

you should find a hard drive laying around or something and give FC6 a test install, along with some other linux distros like suse and ubuntu. i think it would be quite different from what you've experienced with FBSD... shoot, you could even give PC-BSD an install :] lol

January 16th, 2007, 6:06 pm

You're right about the FreeBSD differences. As I just said in another post, I have to start asking clarification questions if the OP wasn't clear.

January 16th, 2007, 6:51 pm

lol yea, pretty much..it'd be nice if the OP stated their distro when asking a question as a file may be in many different places depending on what they're using but.. *shrug* what can you do. lol

January 24th, 2007, 6:10 am

my cd is not a distro i download it at redhat.fedora............