Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> If you're dual-booting, with Windows installed, just boot into windows
> and see what it's set to. Use those figures.

The refresh rate can also depend on the modeline. This is deep magic.
Just copying stuff from the Windows setup is not guaranteed to work.

> Plus, whenever you setup your video driver, you have to be in text
> mode, instead of graphical mode.

system-config-display works fine from graphical mode, though in this
particular case it's probably advisable to do it from text mode since
he's not getting anything usable in graphical mode.

poc