To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3
Bill Gradwohl wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I'm currently talking my friend through and FC3 install over the phone. Her video card and monitor seem to get properly detected. However, seemingly randomly, the display goes bad as what she describes as a "barcode with color" like display. THe first time this happened on Anaconda launch. The second time happened while she was choosign the timezone on the map. The third happened while she was customizing the packages. As I type she's rebooting and start fresh from memory of my instructions.
Any ideas on what ould be causign this? I've never encountered such before.
Try taking down the screen resolution a notch. Sounds like the monitor can't take certain frequencies. By reducing your res, it MAY help. This could be a bad/borderline monitor issue. See if X is configured with the proper frequencies that the monitor can handle. Check the actual spec for the monitor, and fix the config file manually if necessary.
Forgive my ignorance, but which file(s) do I have to edit to check/correct this information?
You don't really need to. Just run (as root) system-config-display and set your display to something sane.
Alternatively, on some MOBO's, the video is built in. The BIOS is usually set at some minimum RAM size for the video. I ALWAYS up that to 32Meg. Even 64Meg if its available. If detection got the specs wrong it can lead to what she's seeing.
To the best of my memory it is an embeded intel video card. I will take a look at that.
Well, the good news is that you can put a cheap decent video card in and stop using that built-in video card if it comes to that.
Thomas
