Fedora-11 rant

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:01:25 +0100
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> >> 2. Can one substitute a more basic driver for the one chosen
> >> during the installation?
> > 
> > Yes. Install with 'xdriver=vesa' to use the vesa driver.
> 
> This didn't seem to work for me, with
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/sda7
> xdriver=vesa in grub.conf .
> 
> (I was able to use the vesa driver by editing /etc/xorg.conf .)

Was this a live media? 

There was a bug preventing xdriver= from working on live media. ;( 

kevin
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