On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Mads Kiilerich wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 11/16/2008 09:04 PM: > > (hoping this is still the right ML for F10 preview reports.) > > > > i just tried to do an F10 preview install on a gateway MX7120 laptop > > with an ATI radeon 200M video chipset and i was told (from memory): > > > > "X startup failed, falling back to text mode." > > > > i have no major issue with a text mode install, but this seems like > > a fairly standard setup (1440x900) display, so it's not clear why X > > couldn't handle something like this. thoughts? > > > > The reason X failed is probably in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - can you get it > somehow? Perhaps by booting a livecd? thought of that, but don't have a live CD at the moment. perhaps i can restart, wait until the instant of the X server failure, then switch to a virtual console and see if that's informative. > And, have you tried booting with "nomodeset"? Does that work? will try that shortly, thanks. can i assume, then, that others have seen this symptom? rday -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
