XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150
Pierre De Boeck
pierre.deboeck at skynet.be
Sun Mar 14 11:31:33 UTC 2004
Hi all,
I am still in my installation process of FC1 on my Dell inpiron 5150.
The installation was fine but I am unable to find a right display setting.
I have a UGXA 1600*1200 lcd and I have already tried the following choices
during install:
- the Dell 1600*1200 LCD
- the LCD 1600*1200
Neither worked and the result is a blurry screen.
Now I am trying LCD 640*480.
If anyone has some helpful info...
BTW, I have also a USB 3buttons mouse but I had to choose
the PS2 setting otherwise the system hanged at bot time.
Once the display issue will be solved, I will see if the
PS2 setting is ok for my USB mouse. Otherwise...
Well well well...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:34 AM
> To: pierre.deboeck at skynet.be
> Subject: RE: XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150
>
>
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 17:22, Pierre De Boeck wrote:
> > Hi again Mark,
> >
> > And how can I boot in text mode apart using the rescude mode?
>
> If you can get into your system, edit /etc/inittab
>
> In that file will be a line that has:
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> Change the '5' to a '3' so that it reads:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> This will change the default so that your system boots to a console
> instead of trying to go directly into X.
>
> Once you have logged in, you can then type:
>
> startx
>
> to attempt to get into the X GUI.
>
> I would leave your system at "runlevel 3" until you are confident that
> everything is OK. Once you are OK, then change the entry above back to
> '5'.
>
> Also, one other thing. Fedora has what is called a "graphical boot'. On
> the grub.conf kernel line may be an option that has 'rhgb'. If so, I
> would remove this. This is known to cause a variety of problems and is
> not worth the hassle at this point.
>
> > I have also a UGXA 1600*200 and I selected the same as you.
>
> OK.
>
> > But I will first try to solve the floppy issue.
>
> :-)
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
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