On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 03:23 +0100, Patrick wrote: > Hi all, > > Just installed F7T1 i386 on my Acer 4005 x86_64 laptop on a separate > partition I had reserved for F7T1. This laptop has an ATI X700 video > chipset. On both FC6 and F7T1 anaconda correctly detects the ATI X700 > but when it starts X the output gets sent to the external monitor or > TV-out port so I only get a black screen. On FC6 I could specify vesa as > a boot option which then worked fine. However, F7T1 does understand it > needs to use vesa but it fails to start X and it falls back to text > mode. > > Anyone had similar experiences with using vesa? Why you would do this when the X700 is supported by the radeon driver, I do not know. The vesa driver in F7t1 ought to include all the latest fixes. If you can scrape /tmp/ramfs/X.log off the machine at install time after the text mode fallback that would probably tell you why it failed. - ajax -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list