On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: >> Hi all; >> >> My son bought an hp Pavilion (HDX-16 1370us) laptop, with a 16" screen. >> >> Upon trying to start the anaconda installer Fedora 10 says 'X failed to start >> reverting back to text mode" >> >> >> Thoughts? anyone have any hp experience similar they can share (hopefully with >> solutions)? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> > Well.... I've had this problem before....but it wasn't on HP and it > wasn't recent enough for me to recall anything other than I completed > the install in text mode and then found/fixed the issue later. > Basically....logging in in text mode, give a startx, and looking in > /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out what went wrong and fixing it.... Anaconda did not find a suitable driver. It's happened before on other systems. Do as Ed recommends and complete the text mode installation. Before you go slogging through the log files do the following: yum upgrade yum install system-config-display system-config-display --reconfig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
