On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Mike Ramirez wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 18:02, bryan2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to install fedora 3 on an old Dell Inspiron 5000. The > > graphic install seems to work without any problems untill it gets to > > the point of rebooting the system. After the reboot, when system > > should be showing a login screen (or going on to more graphic install) > > the screen goes completely blank. The hard drive appears to be active > > but the screen stays blank. I tried different key command to switch to > > a text mode but nothing seems to work. > > Does anyone know what I need to do to get this install to work? Any > > Help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > thanks > > Bryan > > Yeah I had this problem before. At boot click "e" I believe to edit > the kernel entry in grub. Then e again after highlighting the kernel > line to add a 3 to the end of it. so its like > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ 3 > > Then enter then B to boot. Read the text on the Grub Screen to verify I > got these commands right. I boot so infrequently that I forget them. > > Then you will boot into runlevel 3 and get a text login prompt. Then > set the drivers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to vesa. > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "i810" <-- Change this to vesa > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "Intel 845" > EndSection > > > Then you should be able to boot into GUI without 3D acceleration and the > fun stuff. But you can have a gui and be able to get your drivers and > install them manually. we haven't tested how much accelleration we get, but we got it all working by adding vga=792 to the bootloader. Alas, without looking at the documentation, perhaps this does the same a reverts back to vesa :-) - peter
