fedora 7 install problem
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Jul 14 23:41:35 UTC 2007
Simon Tierney wrote:
> I have installed onto an opteron system with an old matrox millenium
> card but when first time boot started it requested me to click on an
> area of the screen (bottom right) which was not displayed, and when I
> mooved the mouse toward it, the system froze.
>
> So I swapped in a 3Dlabs Oxygen card in case the Matrox was
> underpowered, but now it cannot start X and hangs with a little orange
> icon at the top left corner of a blank screen!
>
> I tried to re-install but had the same problem again, the DVD ISO passed
> the test.
>
> The motherboard (Tyan Thunder) has PCI-Express slots, can anyone suggest
> a solution or recommend a PCI-Express video card or chipset compatible
> to Fedora &?
You may have your graphic terminal in a bad mode. Try entering
Alt_Cntl_+ (maybe multiple times) and see if the mode changes. If not
you can install in text mode, although as I recall some optional stuff
is available, don't remember what.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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