Re: ASUS M6000: dual head & upgrade to fedora 8

[Kai-Thorsten Hambrecht]

Hello,
> I have downloaded fedora 8, burned this on a disk and used the disk
>
> to install on a desktop. No problem. I took the same disk to my Asus
> (dual boot with Windows XP) and started up from the disk and chose the
> option "upgrade an existing system". the system began collecting
> installed packages end thereafter checking dependencies. about 40%
> through this the system hangs completely (no mouse action either) and
> only using the on/off button  of the laptop gives any result.

maybe you should see Redhat Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011

but in F8 there is also an issue with dual-head on ATI cards. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374901

Kai.