Re: Dell Inspiron 600M Video Problem

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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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