Alan E. Davis wrote:
I just had a bizaare experience with FC4 install disks on a venerable
desktop machine with G450 video card, and an old Radius PrecisionColor
Display/17. The disks didn't detect the monitor, but did detect the
card. Two monitors, another one, a noname 17". Both monitors acted
flakey: they were as if coated w/ jello, and the mouse messed up the
jello.
The same disks worked ok on a gateway laptop on which I burned these
disks.
Alan Davis
There was a problem with X on the install discs. If you install in text
mode, then boot into runlevel 1, then start the network, then run yum,
you should have a good first boot once you reboot your computer after
yum completes the update.
# linux text
Press any key once update completed and computer reboots. Press A to
append the kernel. Backspace out the rhgb quiet. Press the spacebar
followed by a 1 or the word single, then press enter.
# service start network
# yum -y update
# reboot
You might also consider reading the list archives regarding updated
discs available that a user created and dubbed Fedora 4.1. Another
alternative is to replace the libvgahw.a file which is probably
crippling X on that particular machine.
Jim
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QOTD:
If it's too loud, you're too old.
