On 11/24/2009 04:17 PM, Jos Vos wrote: > Hi, > > I had the crazy idea to try F12 again on an IBM system (SurePOS 565, > specific Point-of-Sale hardware, with 82915G/GV/910GL), on which RHEL4 > was the last RHEL/Fedora version I could install without problems > (see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339361 for some > comments about RHEL5 on this system). > > Well, while graphics didn't work at some point in older releases > (I don't remember which Fedora I tried last, maybe F9 or F10), > now the install stops even earlier, just after: > > running /sbin/loader > detecting hardware > waiting for ... > > Then the screen blanks (instead of showing the language selection) > and I can't do anything more than CTRL-ALT-DEL. > > Any suggestions? > Thanks, > > Try adding the kernel parameters nomodeset and xdriver=vesa or xdriver=intel and vga=ask and select any of the 24 bit values offered.. If install is successful then boot into run level 3 and run Xorg -configure and adapt accordingly something like.. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "driver" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "ButtonNumber" "1" Option "ButtonThreshold" "17" Option "Device" "/dev/ttySn" Option "InputFashion" "Touchpanel" Option "MinX" "6" Option "MaxX" "4066" Option "MinY" "163" Option "MaxY" "4023" Option "Name" "unique_device_id" Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled" Option "SendCoreEvents" "on" EndSection You could reopen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473101 and bother to provide feed back when asked for it.. ( got closed insufficient data ) if you want to get this fixed.. JBG
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