Fedora 9 Preview

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:13:02 -0400
schrieb Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:

> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:20:08PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> >
> >
> >   
> >> laptop has a VIA CX700M2 Unichrome
> >> chipset but I don't think Linux has a driver for it yet. the Video
> >> is normally run with a 800x600 Vesafb driver, how can I set
> >> the video resolution before starting boot process ?
> >>     
> >
> > I believe on a FreeBSD box, I was able to get one of those Unichrome
> > thingies working by choosing via as the driver.  (Manually editing
> > xorg.conf).
> >
> > N.B.  It was a different cheap onboard card (PCChips MB in a tower)
> > but might be worth a shot anyway. 
> >
> >
> >   
> Thanks for that info.
> But do you have any Ideal howto set video before before boot process 
> starts,  and pass to kernel "vesa 800x600" ,
> so I can get video,  to get Fedora 9-KDE-live  to install on
> harddrive.

You could pass "xdriver=vesa" to the isolinux boot prompt. 

Sebastian
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