Have reached a point where I feel p***ed

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 7 09:37:38 UTC 2006


On 10/07/2006 04:39 AM, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:03, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>> With a broken text installer and limiting the ability for the user to
>>>> run the graphical installer successfully, consideration on not 
>>>> releasing
>>>> a distro would be a wise decision.
>>> Where's the bug for the broken text installer?  I'm pretty sure that 
>>> 'linux video=vesa' still works too, to force the vesa driver, which 
>>> according to the reporter does give some gui support.
>>
>> It's 'linux xdriver=vesa'[1]
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> [1] Replacing the old 'linux vesa' with a more generic form to be used
>> if you want to switch i810 vs intel or any other switch of the sort.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the correct entry to run in order to select the desired 
> driver. I tried the command and was able to upgrade an installation with 
>  an MGA G200 card. Of course, just pressing enter and proceeding with 
> the MGA is more desirable.

Just wanted to add that I'm planning to update my G550 machine from FC3 
to FC6 some time in November. I hope to be able to run mga driver rather 
vesa...

My point being: there are Fedora users with Matrox graphics cards out 
there. I'm one of them.

Thanks,
Dariusz




	
	
		
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