Beta installation failed - video error

[Nicu Buculei]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:52 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> I failed to install the Fedora 9 Beta toe to a video error on my system
>> with Intel on-board graphics (82G965).
>>
>> I have the same error using both the GNOME Live CD and the classic DVD:
>> I have no text, no icons and no buttons visible. The only thing I can
>> see is underscores for keyboard accelerators (but not also their
>> corresponding key).
> 
> I've now seen this mentioned a couple of times, but all of my Intel
> hardware seems fine :-/   If you add 'xdriver=vesa' to the kernel
> command line of either anaconda or the livecd, you'll be able to use the
> vesa driver which should hopefully work

Indeed, it worked. And after install, a yum update and the deletion of 
xorg.conf (to get rid of vesa) it works fine and fast.

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