On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Kam Leo<kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Kevin Kempter wrote: >>> Hi all; >>> >>> My son bought an hp Pavilion (HDX-16 1370us) laptop, with a 16" screen. >>> >>> Upon trying to start the anaconda installer Fedora 10 says 'X failed to start >>> reverting back to text mode" >>> >>> >>> Thoughts? anyone have any hp experience similar they can share (hopefully with >>> solutions)? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> >> Well.... I've had this problem before....but it wasn't on HP and it >> wasn't recent enough for me to recall anything other than I completed >> the install in text mode and then found/fixed the issue later. >> Basically....logging in in text mode, give a startx, and looking in >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out what went wrong and fixing it.... > > Anaconda did not find a suitable driver. It's happened before on other > systems. Do as Ed recommends and complete the text mode installation. > Before you go slogging through the log files do the following: > > yum upgrade > yum install system-config-display > system-config-display --reconfig > It's late and I'm not thinking as clearly as I should be. The best reference is the F11 Installation Guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html-single/#d0e6884 Go to "8.2.1. Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines