Frantisek Rysanek wrote: > the subject says it all - the graphical Anaconda hangs just > after the Xserver starts (with the mouse cursor moving) and > the GUI gets displayed. > Even while the widgets are being rendered for the first time, > the system is alive (NumLock works, mouse cursor arrow moves). > But, just after the "Welcome to Fedora" screen becomes fully > rendered, NumLock stops responding and the mouse stops moving. > > The machine is a P4 Celeron at 1.7, in an original Intel > desktop board based on i845 (Phoenix BIOS). The graphics board > is an S3 Trio 64V+. The original memory size was 256 MB, > I tried upgrading it to 750 MB to no avail. > The keyboard and mouse are both generic PS/2 types, inserted > into their respective sockets. > Generally all the hardware is "known good", works just fine in > RH8.0 with various vanilla 2.4 kernels. > > Any quick hints are welcome :-) Boot into text mode (http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#textonly) and check that boots correctly? Then use yum to install the latest updates? Then reboot into text mode and use startx to get into X? Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | ... File not found, I'll load something *I* think @westexe.demon.co.uk | is interesting.
