Dave, Jose,
> How long did you watch the black screen?
> I have seen as long as a two-minute wait while some networking problem
> "times out", before X launches and I get a login prompt. At the time of the
> problem, other apps also took a long time to launch. I had to go through and
> clean up my networking settings, which took care of the problem.
I did not measure the time, but it was definetly more than just 2 mins.
I will try however to wait even more. Just to be sure that the resolution is OK.
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote:
> As reported it may be a timeout problem...
> But if not, your video adaptor may not support BOTH vesa framebuffer mode
> and the video resolution you selected.
Therefore how can I change the X startup resolution defined for Grub? I know how
to do it for lilo (/etc/lilo.conf) but there is nothing like this config file
for Grub (or to be precise I am not aware about any in my ignorance).
> The Aurora screen is buffered (initially) in video RAM.
> It may be eating up RAM used for the actual X display.
I had Aurora and X starting at the boot time beforeMAndrake installation and it
used to work fine.
> Try getting to a console prompt and UNINSTALLING aurora (you can always
> reinstall it).
That the point. I cannot get console prompt unless I boot from the installation
CD in Rescue mode.
Anyway thank for the suggestions. Anybody any other ideas? How to change X
startup resolution for grub in the rescue mode? What are the file to be changed?
Again thanks in advance for any help.
Darek
