I finally got the install to work in graphical mode by typing 'linux vga=791' when booting from teh install CD. Then during install when it asks for kernel parameters i typed 'vga=791'. On Friday 21 May 2004 18:55, look what m jones wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2004 12:59, look what Jean Calixte wrote: > > On Friday 21 May 2004 00:09, look what m jones wrote: > > > still nothing, tried a fresh install and X just will not display... > > > > period. > > > > There are no errors in the logs, it seems that X is starting, but it just > > That is the same thing here with a Inspiron 5000/ATI RAGE > Mobility/SVGA+(1400x1050)... There are no errors in the Xorg.0.log in fact > it shows everything going perfectly, even has no problem with the > 1400x1050... it just that the screen is completely dark... CTRL+ALT+BKSPC > brings you right back to the terminal... this was after changing the init > from 5 to 3. > > > blanks teh screen and I see nothing... this is happening with teh > > grphical boot and the graphical login after boot... I have to turn all > > that off to use > > the system. > > > > I can't find any reference to a similar problem getting fixed... and it > > seems > > other Dell laptops with similar graphic cards/screens work fine. > > I am sorry to say this, but I am so glad you have this problem... I was > going mad... I never had an issue like this before... even when you had to > make the XF86Config by hand, there was always a way to get your screen to > come up eventually... > > I was able to get X to crash and burn by messing with the xorg.conf, so I > know I was on the right track... but there was no combination of entires I > could add or remove to get the screen to come up. > > > I will have ot reinstall FC1 I guess. > > That is what I did... and now I can't remember how I fixed all those FC1 > bugs in the networking config... ugh. > > To make things worse for me I have two systems I use, my desktop here which > is an Asus P4PE which won't even boot the FC2 disks, it just goes into a > reboot loop as soon as the CDROM is recognized and starts to load... and my > other computer is my Inspiron laptop... my only two systems and they happen > to be ones that can NOT install FC2. doh! > > > ----------- > > I have a Dell laptop and upgrading to FC2 was a real pain. I just gave up > > and reformatted with FC2 and it somehow worked. Do you have an nVidia > > card or ATI? > > my card is the ATI Rage Mobility M / 8MB mem. > > after the upgrade from FC1 to FC2 had such a trouble, i simply tried a > fresh install of FC2 and there was no difference at all... only difference > was on a fresh install the xorg.conf is created and on upgrade it is not... > I cp'd my X86Config to xorg.conf and went from there. no joy was acheived. > > Then I tried getting the XFree86 4.4.0 files, they installed perfectly, no > problem... ran the Xfree86 -configure, startx and same exact thing... X > gives no errors in the logs and is starting fine... but there is nothing > but a blank screen. > > filed a bug at bugzilla... > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123953 > > -- > michael jones > erleichda archiving > usa -- michael jones erleichda archiving usa
