On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 14:02 -0700, david c cooke wrote: > the screen displayed something like you would see as snow, like > watching gamma radiation as seen from a televison set tuned to > no particular channel, Just in case that panics anybody, it's not "gamma radiation," it's simply random electrical noise. It's the same, visually, as you'll hear on a radio that's not tuned to a station. You're seeing/hearing electrons rushing around in the circuitry. Your problem sounded like your video card isn't supported. It's possible that updating Xorg after installation will take care of that for you. Your other problems sound worse: > messages include: > ext2-fs: unable to read superblock Sounds like either a stuffed hard drive, or some error happened at the moment it was writing the file system to the hard drive. > isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev-md1, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > kernel panic-not syncing: VFS:unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(9,1) Of course, being unable to properly read the drive, results in various other errors while trying to start up. The following could be related to that, or more hardware problems: > [<c011978e>] panic+03x3e/0x16c > [<0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+x5/0x6 > error: cups config daemon > No volume control elements and/or devices found > Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00:0 -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
