Re: XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150

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Pierre De Boeck became daring and sent these 0.6K bytes,
> 	Hi all,
> 
> I installed FC1 and XP on my i5150, with
> GRUB as the boot loader on the MBR.
> 
> When I boot FC1, I have a few problems:
> 
> - the display and /or frequency refresh that I selected 
> (Dell laptop 1600*1200 and default H/V refresh) was not
> the rigth one since the screen is blurry.

Define the correct frequency ranges yourself manually, you may have to
google the specs on your display for the V&H refr.

eg /etc/X11/XF86Configi from my inspiron 1100:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "LCD Panel 1024x768"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
        VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

This is default stuff from Anaconda, but you get the idea.
 
> - when I forced the system to boot in "console mode" with
> vga=ask, the system hangs, complaining on insmod with floppy.o.
> AS my system has no floppy, it seems that this causes a problem
> to some module loading.

type this into term as root to not attempt loading the floppy modules:
echo "alias floppy off" >> /etc/modules.conf

not sure why or if this is actually causing your notebook to hang, but
there is one easy way to see :)

> How can I fix these 2 problems?

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