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74 Troubleshooting X seem to hang with a gray screen. If this problem happens to you, here s how you can troubleshoot the problem: 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot the PC. The PC starts to boot and you get to a screen where the GRUB boot loader prompts you for the operating system to boot. (If you are using LILO, you get a text prompt.) 2. For GRUB, press the A key to add an option for use by the Linux kernel. For LILO, skip this step. The GRUB boot loader then displays a command line for the Linux kernel and prompts you to add what you want. 3. For GRUB, type a space followed by the word single and then press Enter. For LILO, type linux single and press Enter. The Linux kernel boots in a single-user mode and displays a prompt that looks like the following: sh-2.05b# Now you re ready to configure X. X uses a configuration file depending on your distribution the file is called XF86Config, XF86Config-4, or xorg.conf to figure out the type of display card, monitor, and the kind of screen resolution you want. The Linux installer prepares the configuration file, but sometimes the configuration isn t correct. To quickly create a working configuration file, follow these steps: 1. Type the following command: X -configure This causes the X server to run and create a configuration file. The screen goes blank and then the X server exits after displaying some messages. The last line of the message says the following in Fedora Core: To test the server, run X -xf86config //xorg.conf.new 2. On Fedora Core, use a text editor such as vi to edit the //xorg.conf. new file and change /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice. 3. On Debian, SUSE, and Xandros, try the new configuration file by typing X -xf86config //XF86Config.new. On Fedora Core, try the new configuration file by typing X -xf86config //xorg.conf.new. If you see a blank screen with an X-shaped cursor, the configuration file is working fine.
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