fedora 7 install problem

[Bill Davidsen]

Simon Tierney wrote:
> I have installed onto an opteron system with an old matrox millenium 
> card but when first time boot started it requested me to click on an 
> area of the screen (bottom right) which was not displayed, and when I 
> mooved the mouse toward it, the system froze.
> 
> So I swapped in a 3Dlabs Oxygen card in case the Matrox was 
> underpowered, but now it cannot start X and hangs with a little orange 
> icon at the top left corner of a blank screen!
> 
> I tried to re-install but had the same problem again, the DVD ISO passed 
> the test.
> 
> The motherboard (Tyan Thunder) has PCI-Express slots, can anyone suggest 
> a solution or recommend a PCI-Express video card or chipset compatible 
> to Fedora &?

You may have your graphic terminal in a bad mode. Try entering 
Alt_Cntl_+ (maybe multiple times) and see if the mode changes. If not 
you can install in text mode, although as I recall some optional stuff 
is available, don't remember what.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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