F10 Snap 1

[James Hubbard]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>> James Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>> Fedora 10 Snapshot 1 LiveCD has worked much better for than the Beta
>>> Live CD.  While trying to use the Beta, I was not able to get it to
>>> boot into X.  I had tried to a couple of boot params to force it to
>>> use vesa, but I don't know if those are available anymore.  The video
>>> card is listed as an ATI 3200.
>>>
>> Is a fully rawhide updated system supposed to be functionally the same as
>> SS1? And could you tell me what magic gets it to use vesa, since the obvious
>> edit of the boot line to include video=vesa doesn't do anything obvious on
>> any of my systems.
>
> Rawhide is now f10 snap2++
> Maybe the video answer you seek is here -
> http://wiki.antlinux.com/pmwiki.php?n=HowTos.VgaModes

That link describes using vga=xxx which is what I use to have more
space on the console.  What I was looking for was something like
xdriver=vesa or something similar.

I updated this morning and made sure to add nomodeset.  It doesn't
affect the problem with "wiggle" in the video at 1920x1200.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466909