Tod Thomas wrote:
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+
If you have no window manager, it would probably come up blank. There
used to be a crosshatched pattern that showed up before, when no
windowmanager was present.
Without either window manager, gdm or kdm would not be installed. I
believe there is an xdm also. ( I use gnome, but install kde also, not
sure about xdm)
Anyway, you could probably boot into runlevel 3 and install your
preferred windowmanager. xfce is available from fedora-extras and the
repositories are active for extras upon completed installation. If you
prefer another wm, install that while in runlevel 3, then change to
runlevel 5 or run startx from a terminal.
About the monitor, you could choose a generic choice for LCD and select
1400x1050 to see if this would help with the montor.
Jim
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