FC16 or 17 video noy working

[Bill Davidsen]

The live and install CD don't seem to work in VESA video.

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'm ready to update a laptop from fc11 to something current (kernel and some
> apps are upgraded by hand). I want to boot from Live-CD just to be sure the
> hardware like me, and sure enough it doesn't.
>
> I started with the fc16 version, 64bit, and it came up to the GNOME3 wallpaper,
> moved the cursor to the upper left corner, and stopped. I never got the rest of
> the shell, although the cursor moves in response to the touchpad. I checked,
> terminal access was up, nothing I saw in logs told me anything.
>
> Since I had an fc17 32bit USB also in my pocket I tried that. Same response, the
> "throbbing meatball" graphic boot, wallpaper, active cursor, no apps. Terminal
> is active and looks fine. FC17 has a basic graphics boot option, so I tried
> that, which uses the vesa driver for X. This time I got the "marching squares"
> boot display, followed by the same problem.
>
> I booted again, using the radeon driver (radeon 1250 hardware) and not change at
> all, other than the boot was now the graphic one again. Played with nomodeset
> boot option, didn't help. Did a power cycle cold boot each time to be sure the
> graphics card is clean.
>
> So, I know that useful radeon support is provided by the vendor driver from
> rpmfusion, and I have no issue with that other than how do I install so I can
> use the driver? Anyone have a trick I missed? I did all previous installs using
> the vesa driver and had no issue, so what now? I can run FC17 in a VM using KVM,
> but that's hardly a solution, just a data point.
>
> Thoughts?
	

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