No screen in attempted install

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:58:38 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:22:54 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 04/04/2010 07:12 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I've never met this problem before, and am at a loss as to how to
> > > tackle it. This is on a new laptop, suitably partitioned, ready for an
> > > install.
> > > 
> > > Attempt 1 - Fedora 12 DVD.  Spins up, text messages whizz past, screen
> > > goes blank, disk stops spinning - and nothing happens.
> > > 
> > > Attempt 2 - Fedora KDE Live CD - Spins up, text messages whizz past,
> > > screen goes blank, the disk continues to spin.  Eventually the startup
> > > sound is heard - but there is still nothing on screen.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Sounds like an X issue. What kind of video card? Try installing in vesa
> > or text mode.
> 
> Yes, I think so.  It's Intel - but the spec is vague about which model.
> Anyway, install is proceeding now.  I was attempting to interrupt the boot
> to add parameters, but of course that was causing it to use the default
> setting. This time I kept my hands off until I saw the grub menu, then
> selected the basic video install.  All looks ok now.
> 
The install completed, and updates have been run.  The next logical move is to 
run system-config-display, since the current display is too big for my screen 
and has terrible fonts in konsole.  However, s.c.d doesn't run:

# system-config-display
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module>
    dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, 
videocard.VideoCardInfo())
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, in 
__init__
    if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1:
IndexError: index out-of-bounds

I guess that if the worst comes to the worst I do have, somewhere, a backup 
file of a basic vesa xorg.conf.

Haven't yet tried much else, except to find the krunner doesn't run - either 
from alt-F2 or from desktop right-click > run command.

Anne
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