XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150
Aaron Matteson
fedora at cryptosystem.us
Sat Mar 13 23:15:29 UTC 2004
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> Hi all,
>
> I installed FC1 and XP on my i5150, with
> GRUB as the boot loader on the MBR.
>
> When I boot FC1, I have a few problems:
>
> - the display and /or frequency refresh that I selected
> (Dell laptop 1600*1200 and default H/V refresh) was not
> the rigth one since the screen is blurry.
Define the correct frequency ranges yourself manually, you may have to
google the specs on your display for the V&H refr.
eg /etc/X11/XF86Configi from my inspiron 1100:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
This is default stuff from Anaconda, but you get the idea.
> - when I forced the system to boot in "console mode" with
> vga=ask, the system hangs, complaining on insmod with floppy.o.
> AS my system has no floppy, it seems that this causes a problem
> to some module loading.
type this into term as root to not attempt loading the floppy modules:
echo "alias floppy off" >> /etc/modules.conf
not sure why or if this is actually causing your notebook to hang, but
there is one easy way to see :)
> How can I fix these 2 problems?
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