I'm trying to load FC on a used Inspiron I just got. I played with the
FC3 release all day yesterday, because I already had the CD's burned,
and couldn't get it to work. I tried FC4 last night and am still having
the same problem.
After the welcome screen, when I skip the CD validation check, Anaconda
starts running. It notices my mouse and video card but says the monitor
is unknown. After that I get a blank screen.
I tried using 'linux lowres'. That worked long enough for me to get FC
installed but once throught the reboot sequence I get the blank screen
again. Very frustrating.
I tried dropping to a command prompt and editing the xorg.conf. I'm not
sure what my refresh rates should be so I followed an example someone
had posted on the web with a similar (but not exactly) setup - no go.
There seems to be a lot of people out there who have gotten FC to work
remarkably well on the dell insprion 600m, no problems at all. I can't
seem to replicate that experience.
Incidentally, I don't like either Gnome or KDE so I normally exclude
them, install X and then add my own window manager later. Could
excluding the stock window managers be causing my problem?
I'm stuck, any help would be appreciated. I could use some pointers to
good doc references too. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?
Thanks - Tod
Dell Inspiron 600M
1.4GHZ Pentium M
ATI M9 (ATI Mobility - Radeon 9000) video card.
Quanta Display 14.1" (1400 x 1050) SXGA+
