No screen in attempted install

[Aioanei Rares]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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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Anne, please paste the output of lspci -v.