To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: FC3 on a Compaq notebook: X trouble
Hello,
I've had RH9 on my Presario 700US for about a year, and decided to change over to FC3 today. The install went fine except that in graphics mode, the display is unusable.
I re-started, this time for a text-based install, and the only unusual event was the announcement at one point that my monitor wasn't recognized. Anaconda did identify my video card (S3), but not the monitor....
Upon 1st reboot, at the point you receive the welcome screen followed by the license agreement, etc., the display was obviously screwed up. It was aligned to the upper left corner, and below and to the right of the screen was a ghost image repeating the display with frequent flashing.
I'm guessing there's a memory alignment problem. This laptop takes 16 MB off the top (I think) of main memory to use for video.
I've got it up at runlevel 4 now and am experimenting with xconfig, however no success so far. When I issue xorg -config <file>, the screen just goes dark. how do I kill the trial w/o rebooting? (I'd expect it to ask "OK?" and start a timer when running a trial xorg.conf, but that doesn't seem to be what it's doing.)
thx -- Douglas Frank HP Co. ZKO 110 Spit Brook Rd. The older I get, 603-884-0501 Nashua, NH USA 03062 the better I was.
Boot into runlevel 3 and issue the command:
system-config-display --reconfig
This will allow you to set your monitor and display settings.
Please report your results back! Thomas
