Forcing vesa driver from boot line

[Bill Davidsen]

Kam Leo wrote:
> 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.
> 
Turns out the current release is too broken on my hardware to use, the touchpad 
fails after a few seconds regardless. Thanks much for the input, I was looking 
at the wrong issue, apparently, I couldn't use the system enough to evaluate the 
change.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550719

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