Vesa Drivers - fedora instalation
Michael Miles
mmamiga6 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 15 21:17:29 UTC 2010
Michael Miles wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> David A. Paredes Rios wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello guys, i have a doubt, there is anyway to install fedora with
>>>> vesa
>>>> drivers or generic video drivers as default?
>>>> Because i have some problems installing my fedora, after install, i
>>>> have
>>>> video problems, then someone give me a command or something to install
>>>> with default vesa drivers, and it works fine, anyone knows how to
>>>> do it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The last time I looked, there was "Install a system with basic video
>>> drivers"
>>> which I believe is what ynou want.
>>>
>>>
>> Bill:
>>
>> I get an error that there is not enough video memory and then the
>> installation switches to text mode.
>>
>> If I complete the installation, I get the wrong video mode and screen
>> corruption.
>>
>> I think 'Doc' Savage sent me fixes for that.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
> I had the same problem with a 512 meg ram laptop that was using shared
> ram for video
> I reduced the shared ram down to 16 meg for the install only then
> after it was finished I brought it back up to 64 meg
> Another system that used no shared ram for video failed to install in
> vesa mode and I had to bring it up to 768 meg ram just for the install
> then drop back down to 512 after install
>
> The min requirements for F13 is
>
>
> 1.2.2. Processor and memory requirements for x86_64 architectures
>
> *
> Minimum RAM for text-mode: 256 MiB
> *
> Minimum RAM for graphical: 384 MiB
> *
> Recommended RAM for graphical: 512 MiB
>
> It runs on 512meg ram but install requires more for some reason
>
>
> If you ave more ram then put it in and try again
Sorry about that I meant to say I brought the video mem up to 64 meg for
the install the dropped it down later to run F13.
Again my apology
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