X wont start for install on an hp pavilion HDX-16 1370us

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 06:13:16 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kam Leo<kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> Kevin Kempter wrote:
>>> Hi all;
>>>
>>> My son bought an hp Pavilion (HDX-16 1370us) laptop, with a 16" screen.
>>>
>>> Upon trying to start the anaconda installer Fedora 10 says 'X failed to start
>>> reverting back to text mode"
>>>
>>>
>>> Thoughts? anyone have any hp experience similar they can share (hopefully with
>>> solutions)?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>> Well....  I've had this problem before....but it wasn't on HP and it
>> wasn't recent enough for me to recall anything other than I completed
>> the install in text mode and then found/fixed the issue later.
>> Basically....logging in in text mode, give a startx, and looking in
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out what went wrong and fixing it....
>
> Anaconda did not find a suitable driver. It's happened before on other
> systems. Do as Ed recommends and complete the text mode installation.
> Before you go slogging through the log files do the following:
>
> yum upgrade
> yum install system-config-display
> system-config-display --reconfig
>

It's late and I'm not thinking as clearly as I should be. The best
reference is the F11 Installation Guide:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html-single/#d0e6884

Go to "8.2.1. Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation"




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