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I think I’ve cracked it.
In my previous post, I talked about the difficulty of getting Linux to work correctly with my PC’s graphics card. So what did I do?
Firstly, I reinstalled Fedora, altered the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so that it used the works-with-everything vesa video driver. The problem of this file reverting to a completely incompatible [...]
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One of the more puzzling things I’ve been experiencing with Fedora Linux is getting the graphics card and the operating system to play ball (and it’s not just Fedora: Ubuntu won’t do a graphical install on the computer). Here’s my main problem: each time I boot the system, I’m told that it “Failed to start [...]
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