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From root login in my newly installed Fedora 8. When I type startx I get a black screen.

I have solved this before. It's something like I just need to chose the display as a standard VGA or something. But I don't remember how to select the display. How can I fix it?

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Xorg -configure and X -configure will auto-generate a default configuration file for the X server. In most cases, the default configuration will get X going from where you can further fine tune your X configuration.

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on giving these commands , it gives error Missing output drivers . Configuration failed – user28665 Feb 18 '10 at 11:07
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How about you remove the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf completely (back it up somewhere first, please), and start X? Does that work? – ayaz Feb 18 '10 at 11:29
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yum install hal


/var/run/hald

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ok done so far . after running /var/run/hald what to do. – user28665 Feb 22 '10 at 12:35
after stating hald, start gdm. You should remove any xorg.conf (backup as recommended below). – Quandary Feb 22 '10 at 22:14
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