Problem: Fedora 16 was installed on a bootable USB drive on a system that is no longer working. USB drive plugged into different PC with different graphics card.
Fedora boots fine and gives me logon screen (KDE I think – it has a submarine shining its light on the ocean floor. If I login using graphics mode, it switched into a graphics mode that neither monitor can deal with.
Most solutions say something unhelpful like go to the settings panel – I have no useable graphics so that’s not possible. If I could just force it to use some very limited graphics mode, I can probably then fix it in graphics mode.
As long as I don’t login, I can get to consoles (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) to do root stuff, but I need the browser to test the server changes
Art – I’m not a Fedora user (gentoo here…), but you can try renaming your xorg.conf (if there is one ) and rebooting. Kernel modesetting in F16 may bring it up in a useable graphics mode.
JohnY2
It also looks like you may need to add ‘nomodeset’ to the safe mode grub menu entry for the vesa video entry in grub.conf if it’s not there.