Re: [CentOS] Typing "startx" gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-09 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Phil Schaffner wrote: > See if this helps: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/ConfigureNewVideoCard System-config-display --reconfig fixed up a seriously messed up configuration. It works! Thanks to all who gave me feedback, this did the trick. **

Re: [CentOS] Typing "startx" gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-08 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Gilbert Sebenste wrote on 05/07/2011 11:57 AM: > ... >> I get a ton of stuff before this, but just info messages. Where should I >> start looking to fix this problem? I use the Redhat experimental kernels >> at http://epople.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/. Runn

Re: [CentOS] Typing "startx" gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-07 Thread Phil Schaffner
Gilbert Sebenste wrote on 05/07/2011 11:57 AM: ... > I get a ton of stuff before this, but just info messages. Where should I > start looking to fix this problem? I use the Redhat experimental kernels > at http://epople.redhat.com/jwilson/el5/. Running CentOS 5.6, > fully patched as of this morning

[CentOS] Typing "startx" gives me a black scrren, have to reboot to get back to runlevel 3

2011-05-07 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Hello everyone, I have been having a vexing problem for a year, and I cannot solve it. Hopefully, someone has a tip to get me over the hump to fix this once and for all. When I type "startx" from root, I get: (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (WW) fglrx(0): *