On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third 1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
If I use the text installer, X will not start when running the first time after installing.
TTIA.
James McKenzie (And a big thank you to the wiki documentation team. I read through and used the archives to see if this had been answered before posting!)
James,
My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found the 'gtf' utility which computed the required modeline. I wrote a custom xorg.conf file for Fedora 13. If Fedora 8 uses xorg (I don't remember), it should work for you.
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "r128" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "IBM" ModelName "Thinkpad A22p" DisplaySize 305 229 # 1600x1200 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 74.52 kHz; pclk: 160.96 MHz Modeline "1600x1200 60.00" 160.96 1600 1704 1880 2160 1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" Subsection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection EndSection