Hi all I am trying to install FC10 on a desktop machine. I replaced an existing FC7 HDD with a scratch HDD. Otherwise the hardware is identical, and FC7 worked ok. For some reason I cannot get it to work in graphical mode. I get past the media test, then anaconda starts, then I get an unreadable screen with 'Back' and 'Next' buttons. I click 'Next', and get a badly messed-up 'Language' screen. I click 'Next' and get a badly messed-up 'Keyboard' screen. I click 'Next', a 'Warning' dialog appears, with no text, and the machine hangs. I started again and installed in text mode, successfully. I am now trying to configure X. I am no expert, and I could not find any information on the Fedora site, so I am using the information from X.org. First I typed 'X -configure'. This created a file called '/root/xorg.conf.new'. It seems to detect the on-board VGA card ok - it shows it as an Intel 82845G/GL. It does not pick up any information about the monitor - it just fills in defaults for the identifier, vendor name, and model name. Following the instructions on X.org, I typed 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new'. It tries to start a graphical screen, nothing appears, and then the machine hangs. After some experiments, I found that if I uncomment NoAccel, it still does not work, but it does not hang. If I return to tty1, the last line shows 'intel(0): Failed to init memory manager'. The monitor is actually an Ultra DT-1454D. I got the specs from the web and manually entered HorizSync and VertRefresh into xorg.conf.new and tried again, but it made no difference. Other things I have tried - 1. To check that the hardware has not gone faulty, I booted off my old FC7 dvd, and told it to do a fresh install. It brings up the media check in text mode, then starts anaconda, and then continues with the install in graphics mode with no problem. I did not continue past that point, it was just to prove that the hardware was ok. 2. I ran 'yum install system-config-display'. It downloaded ok, but when I run it, it uses a HUGE font, and all I can see is 'Settings' and half of 'Hardware'. I cannot scroll the screen, so I cannot do anything useful there. 3. I tried re-installing using 'lowres' mode, but it behaved the same as previously. 4. I ran 'yum upgrade'. After battling with PackageKit dependencies I eventually got it to upgrade successfully, but it made no difference. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance Frank Millman -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
