Laptop Display Problems

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:09:37PM -0400, Annette T Robart wrote:
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
> Subject: Re: Laptop Display problems
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0604291646200.2249 at access.ces.clemson.edu>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> 
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:37 -0400, Terry Snyder wrote:
> >> On 4/29/06, Annette T Robart <ARobart at hughes.net> wrote:
> >>          Hi there, please excuse me; I am totally new to this
> >>         product.  I have installed FC1 to my desktop with absolutely
> >>         no problems.  It came with my textbook for my Unix class.  Now
> >>         I am trying to install it on an extra laptop that I don't use.
> >>         It was a new hard drive so it is the only thing on it. It is
> >>         an IBM A21P 850Mhz, with 512 ram and a 15 inch monitor.  It
> >>         installs fine, but it stops at the monitor and I'm not sure
> >>         what to pick?? I don't see anything in the documentation and
> >>         nothing in the BIOS. I guessed a couple times and when it
> >>         boots up the X window fails. I get "bad mode clock/interface",
> >>         hsync out of range, fatal error, no screens found.
> >>
> >>         Does anyone know what I should pick for a monitor and what
> >>         range I should pick?
> >>
> >>         Thanks so much!
> >>
> >>         Annette
> >
> > Hi and welcome to Fedora.
> >
> > Om my IBM Thinkpad T20 - I use Generic LCD at 1024x768 as the monitor -
> > and it works.
> 
> I believe the 1024x768 Thinkpad display is an "IBM 9514-B TFT Panel". 
> That's what I use on m T41.
> 
> >
> > That being said - Fedora Core 1 is really old and no longer supported.
> > I suggest you get a copy of Fedora Core 4 or Fedora Core 5 and try that.
> >
> > Note that installing FC5 on my Thinkpad T20 was a little tricky, FC4
> > installs just dandy - both are currently supported with official
> > updates. FC5 might install as intended for you though, I don't know.
> >
> > I do not recommend using FC1 at this point in time.
> 
> Seconded.
> 
> Well I've tried everything else, I guess you are right. I'll have to go with
> Core 4. I just need to find it on a Cd-rom. I found it on the Internet as a
> download but it was so many individual files, it was confusing and they were
> still too large. I wasn't even sure what I was supposed to download, but it
> didn't matter because they were taking forever to download even with my
> satellite and I had to quit.

Rather than download individual files, set up bittorrent
(http://www.bittorrent.com/) and use it to pull in either the CD-ROM
images or a DVD image. (I prefer the DVD images, but you may not.) It
will take a while, but the nice thing about bittorrent is that it has
redundancy; should your connection go down it will pick up where it
left off. Also, you can throttle it if need be. Do expect at least a
day for the download, though.

You may burn the images. If you have an extant Linux installation,
look for k3b or xcdroast. If you aren't sure what to do, let us know
which program you have; someone here should be able to walk you
through. Be sure to burn the images as images, not as one monster file
in a new image.

You may also use the images to perform a network installation by
setting up another box as a local yum repository (my preferred method;
http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html). It's more work to set up but
pays off in ease of upgrades and updates later on.

And there are vendors out there from whom you can buy CDs (and
probably DVDs by now). cheapbytes.com is one; others exist.

-- 

Charles Curley                  /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
Looking for fine software       \ /    Respect for open standards
and/or writing?                  X     No HTML/RTF in email
http://www.charlescurley.com    / \    No M$ Word docs in email

Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0  809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20060429/f3b9152b/attachment-0001.sig>