Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:58:38 Anne Wilson wrote: > >> On Sunday 04 April 2010 11:22:54 Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> >>> On 04/04/2010 07:12 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> >>>> I've never met this problem before, and am at a loss as to how to >>>> tackle it. This is on a new laptop, suitably partitioned, ready for an >>>> install. >>>> >>>> Attempt 1 - Fedora 12 DVD. Spins up, text messages whizz past, screen >>>> goes blank, disk stops spinning - and nothing happens. >>>> >>>> Attempt 2 - Fedora KDE Live CD - Spins up, text messages whizz past, >>>> screen goes blank, the disk continues to spin. Eventually the startup >>>> sound is heard - but there is still nothing on screen. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>>> >>> Sounds like an X issue. What kind of video card? Try installing in vesa >>> or text mode. >>> >> Yes, I think so. It's Intel - but the spec is vague about which model. >> Anyway, install is proceeding now. I was attempting to interrupt the boot >> to add parameters, but of course that was causing it to use the default >> setting. This time I kept my hands off until I saw the grub menu, then >> selected the basic video install. All looks ok now. >> >> > The install completed, and updates have been run. The next logical move is to > run system-config-display, since the current display is too big for my screen > and has terrible fonts in konsole. However, s.c.d doesn't run: > > # system-config-display > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module> > dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, > videocard.VideoCardInfo()) > File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, in > __init__ > if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1: > IndexError: index out-of-bounds > > I guess that if the worst comes to the worst I do have, somewhere, a backup > file of a basic vesa xorg.conf. > > Haven't yet tried much else, except to find the krunner doesn't run - either > from alt-F2 or from desktop right-click > run command. > > Anne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Anne, please paste the output of lspci -v.
