Install using vesa fails with ATI X700

[Patrick]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:24 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:31 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:22 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > The vesa driver in F7t1 ought to include all the latest fixes.  If you
> > > can scrape /tmp/ramfs/X.log off the machine at install time after the
> > > text mode fallback that would probably tell you why it failed.
> > 
> > I'll give it a try. Do you have any tips for me how I can save that
> > file? Is it at that time already possible to copy the file to a usb
> > stick or ftp the file to another host?
> 
> Network should be up by that point, or at least configurable.  But yes,
> USB stick is the other option, and normal mount and cp should be
> working.
> 
> It would also be pleasant to see the X log from trying to use the radeon
> driver without the MonitorLayout force.  I hope we at least see that
> there's an LVDS panel attached and are just refusing to set it up for
> some reason.

Ugh I completely forgot to submit the info you asked for. Just had a
look and I can't figure out how to mount the USB stick. Can't even find
something similar to /var/log/messages so I know what the USB stick is
called. Can you please give me a hint?

Thanks,
Patrick