On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 19:17 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:36:37 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> [....]
> >> > Beartooth: Have you tried the vesa driver? It worked with my nVidia
> >> > laptop card when nothing else would (when F8 was released), except
> >> > that it wouldn't turn off the backlight. I haven't seen any progress
> >> > on that bug (#351661) since I filed it last October.
> >>
> >> Vesa driver? I've seen the word during boot-ups on at least one
> >> machine; but since it means nothing to me, I don't even recall which
> >> machine. I'll be glad to try that or anything else I can; how do I do
> >> it?
> >
> > I believe you can do this:
> >
> > When you see the GRUB splash screen on boot, press a key. >
> >
> > Select
> > the top kernel line of the options offered and type 'e', select
> > the kernel line and type 'e'. Append 'video=vesa' at the end of
> > the line. Type [Enter], type 'b'.
>
> Will do, shortly. As you can see in detail in the thread on "X
> doesn't start," at the moment I have that machine actually online; I've
> just scp'd all of /home/btth/* onto this one (my #2), deleting like a
> madman at the same time; I want to try to get /home/btth/.*, too, if I
> can, before I reboot #1.
>
> Once that's done, I have a fallback: I can find some way to wipe
> the whole Fedora hard drive without wiping the XP drive, install F8 onto
> it cold, and scp the files I want back. Ahh, insurance!
>
>
> > Then X should detect your video card as vesa, which is the most generic
> > sort of interface.
>
> Aha -- makes lots of sense. And I would of course prefer, vastly,
> to get F9 running properly. Maybe that *can* be done. In which case, of
> course, I just delete the whole gleanings folder (or burn it to DVD, file
> it away, and then delete it).
>
> > If the machine boots, you can boot in runlevel 3 (edit the kernel line
> > in GRUB as above, but instead of "video=vesa" add "3".
>
> Hmmm ... I realize edits in grub are temporary; so the
> "video=vesa" won't be there, right?
Right, but if you aren't booting into X (runlevel 5), it doesn't matter.
If you want to run with video=vesa (semi-)permanently,
edit /etc/grub.conf.
>
> > Then you'll get
> > a virtual console to log into.
>
> Id est, a simple white on black command line, right?
Right.
>
> > Then (as root) run
> >
> > system-config-display --reconfig
> >
> > and see if that helps.
>
> Oho! I didn't know that command had that option. Will do, with
> bells on. Stay tuned.
>
I'm standing on one foot...
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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