Help installing Fedora3 on dell lap top please

Peter Teuben teuben at astro.umd.edu
Sun Nov 21 02:51:05 UTC 2004


On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Mike Ramirez wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 18:02, bryan2 at dimensional.com wrote:
> >  Hello,
> > I am trying to install fedora 3 on an old Dell Inspiron 5000. The
> > graphic install seems to work without any problems untill it gets to
> > the point of rebooting the system. After the reboot, when system
> > should be showing a login screen (or going on to more graphic install)
> > the screen goes completely blank. The hard drive appears to be active
> > but the screen stays blank. I tried different key command to switch to
> > a text mode but nothing seems to work. 
> > Does anyone know what I need to do to get this install to work? Any
> > Help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > thanks
> > Bryan
> 
> Yeah I had this problem before.   At boot click "e" I believe to edit
> the kernel entry in grub.  Then e again after highlighting the kernel
> line to add a 3 to the end of it.  so its like 
> 
>  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ 3
> 
> Then enter then B to boot.  Read the text on the Grub Screen to verify I
> got these commands right.  I boot so infrequently that I forget them.
> 
> Then you will boot into runlevel 3 and get a text login prompt.  Then
> set the drivers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to vesa.  
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "i810"                 <-- Change this to vesa
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "Intel 845"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Then you should be able to boot into GUI without 3D acceleration and the
> fun stuff.  But you can have a gui and be able to get your drivers and
> install them manually.

we haven't tested how much accelleration we get, but we got it all working
by adding vga=792 to the bootloader. Alas, without looking at the
documentation, perhaps this does the same a reverts back to vesa :-)

- peter




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