Fedora-11 rant
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Jun 29 10:49:02 UTC 2009
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. ;(
It was indeed: Fedora-11 KDE Live CD.
Thanks for the help.
Fedora-11 seems to be working fine now.
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Timothy Murphy
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