Help installing Fedora3 on dell lap top please

[Peter Teuben]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb bryan2 at dimensional.com um 3:02:
> 
> > I am trying to install fedora 3 on an old Dell Inspiron 5000. The
> > graphic install seems to work without any problems untill it gets to
> > the point of rebooting the system. After the reboot, when system
> > should be showing a login screen (or going on to more graphic install)
> > the screen goes completely blank. The hard drive appears to be active
> > but the screen stays blank. I tried different key command to switch to
> > a text mode but nothing seems to work. 
> 
> > Bryan
> 
> You did read the mail from over the last 2 weeks? Not all of them, of
> course, just the reports about equal issues. You should.
> 
> Btw. there are update packages available you should install, especially
> the udev and rhgb package. In the next days there will be too a new
> kernel which is actually in updates-testing.

by golly, i asked exactly the same question for the same machine :-)
We eventually solved it by adding
	vga=792
(i believe that # is correct) to the bootloader, grub in our case.
This was with FC3 out of the box, no updates yet.

- peter