On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
> 1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
>
> If I use the text installer, X will not start when running the first
> time after installing.
>
> TTIA.
>
> James McKenzie
> (And a big thank you to the wiki documentation team. I read through and
> used the archives to see if this had been answered before posting!)
James,
My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found
the 'gtf' utility which computed the required modeline. I wrote a custom
xorg.conf file for Fedora 13. If Fedora 8 uses xorg (I don't remember),
it should work for you.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "r128"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "IBM"
ModelName "Thinkpad A22p"
DisplaySize 305 229
# 1600x1200 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 74.52 kHz; pclk: 160.96 MHz
Modeline "1600x1200 60.00" 160.96 1600 1704 1880 2160 1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Subsection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection
--
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
