After trying a few other distros for the heck of it, I decided to go back to Fedora Core 4. I've installed it a few times so I know it works well on my hardware, but tonight I ran into something peculiar. After going through the install procedure, rebooting and then setting my monitor resolution and user name I hit next or finish. Instead of getting the gdm login screen I get black. Also, I have no keyboard input - i tried hitting the caps lock button on my usb keyboard and the led wasn't going on at all. I suspect nothing was going on with the mouse too, but I can't say as the screens just black. I tried a couple more reinstalls and noticed on the third try (I'm not famous for picking up important details) I noticed while setting up my partitions with disk druid (I always do) that it mention that my partitions were previously mounted as /1 , swap, and /home1. I most assuredly didn't put that in when I set up the mounts the last install and I did format them to erase all data prior.
Well I got sick of seeing the black screen so I installed Fedora Core 3 and everything is fine. I'm currently updating to FC4 via the yum command line, look here for a quick guide on how to do this (as it doesn't always work well). http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-bee4591f4bebe867a1cfbbef57475418fe6bc228<br> <br> FC4 installs sometimes end up with weird /etc/fstab file entries, I wonder if my problem was related. Someone else here had issues with thier swap partition and I had some issues in December.<br><br><b><i>Joe Fay <wb0fhu@aol.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Success!!! I finally got FC4 installed. Thanks to all who made good <br>suggestions, such as Fernando, BJay, and Nigel! You all (yes, I'm from the <br>south ; ) pointed me in the right direction. As it wound up, here's what <br>the situation was, and the resolution:<br>1. Fernando pointed me
towards the video card.<br>2. Nigel called my video card to a tee, as one that he'd had trouble with <br>in the past.<br>3. Bjay's comments were confirmation to what everyone else said.<br>4. I went out today with an armload of my old serviceable cards, and went <br>to a dealer<br> who had some old used stuff, as well as new stock.<br>5. I traded out my old stuff, plus $20 for an old isa video card (My mb <br>dosen't have an<br> AGP slot) an old S3 critter with 2mb of ram, plus a new audio card with <br>four channels and a Linux driver for the card, with full instructions as to <br>how to install the driver.<br><br>When I had installed everything, I said a little prayer and turned on the <br>machine. The install coughed up a hair ball, but no white screen of <br>death!!! I had gone with the CUSTOM install route the first time, so I <br>decided I would just do the basic WORKSTATION install. Everything then went <br>like clockwork and installed in 30 minutes. The
system rebooted right into <br>further setup, and then into FC4 and the Gnome desktop. I played around a <br>bit, then held my breath, shut the machine all the way down, with the DVD <br>out of the reader, and it booted right back into Gnome...no problems.<br><br>Now all I have to do is go get the right Jack, Rosegarden, and Ardour files <br>off the net, and then download the CCRMA. But at least I have a fresh <br>install of FC4.<br><br>Thanks for your great responses and your help to me. Hope I can do as well <br>for someone else. I tried two other lists to get answers, but only got them <br>here. I will be around for some time to come. I look forward to making <br>music on Linux, and getting rid of XP.<br><br>Gratefully,<br>Joe Fay, WO0O<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PlanetCCRMA mailing list<br>PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.stanford.edu<br>http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma<br></blockquote><br><p>
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