On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb bryan2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx um 3:02: > > > 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. > > > Bryan > > You did read the mail from over the last 2 weeks? Not all of them, of > course, just the reports about equal issues. You should. > > Btw. there are update packages available you should install, especially > the udev and rhgb package. In the next days there will be too a new > kernel which is actually in updates-testing. by golly, i asked exactly the same question for the same machine :-) We eventually solved it by adding vga=792 (i believe that # is correct) to the bootloader, grub in our case. This was with FC3 out of the box, no updates yet. - peter
