Help installing Fedora3 on dell lap top please

[Terry Polzin]

On Saturday November 20 2004 21:49, Peter Teuben wrote:
> 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.
I use vga=733 on my insprion 1000  FC3 test2 was the first version of RedHat 
or Fedora I could get X to work on.