On Saturday November 20 2004 21:49, Peter Teuben wrote: > 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. I use vga=733 on my insprion 1000 FC3 test2 was the first version of RedHat or Fedora I could get X to work on.
