Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 16:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows
> > and see what it's set to. Use those figures.
> 
> The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This is deep magic.
> Just copying stuff from the Windows setup is not guaranteed to work.
> 
> > Plus, whenever you setup your video driver, you have to be in text
> > mode, instead of graphical mode.
> 
> system-config-display works fine from graphical mode, though in this
> particular case it's probably advisable to do it from text mode since
> he's not getting anything usable in graphical mode.
<chuckles hugely> There is that! <grinning and ducking> Ric

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