F10 i386 preview install on gateway MX7120 fails to start X

[Mads Kiilerich]

Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 11/16/2008 09:04 PM:
>   (hoping this is still the right ML for F10 preview reports.)
>
> i just tried to do an F10 preview install on a gateway MX7120 laptop
> with an ATI radeon 200M video chipset and i was told (from memory):
>
> "X startup failed, falling back to text mode."
>
>   i have no major issue with a text mode install, but this seems like
> a fairly standard setup (1440x900) display, so it's not clear why X
> couldn't handle something like this.  thoughts?
>   

The reason X failed is probably in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - can you get it 
somehow? Perhaps by booting a livecd?

And, have you tried booting with "nomodeset"? Does that work?

/Mads
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