Forcing vesa driver from boot line

[Kam Leo]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded my FC12 and now the X is unusable, due to "improvements" in
> the radeon driver. I tried using video= and xdriver= boot options, is there
> any way to restore this to slow but usable operation, or should I just roll
> back and reinstall an older release?
>
> The mouse is totally unresponsive, system gets 2-3k int/sec from something,
> and Wifi stopped working. So far this release is 2 for 11 on my systems, the
> others have been rolled back to FC11.
>
> --
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>

Try adding "nomodeset" to grub to disable KMS. "vga= " and other video
options should be able to take effect afterwards.