Re: Various computer installs and results.

[Jim Cornette <fct-cornette sbcglobal net>]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 20:33, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  
>
> > Now, with the computer with the 815 chipset. I started to do a
> > graphics install. I got as far as the portion where the
> > installations were detected. I then tried to do a clean
> > istallation. I had colored lines running across my monitor and
> > had to alt-sysreq-b and the computer rebooted. Trying a graphics
> > installation again. I did not even get as far as previous before
> > the colored lines striped my monitor. alt-sysreq-b rebooted the
> > computer. Now proceeding to do a text upgrade on one of the
> > installations. This seems to be proceeding normally.
>
>  
> Ditto on the 815 Graphic Controller.  Very same symptoms so I opted 
> for the text install and everything seems to be running fine so far 
> using 16bit color after completion.
>
> Regards, Mike Klinke

The text install finally finished from the test installation. I'm still 
running 24 depth and 1280 x 1024 for the post install. I'll have to 
downshift to 16 at 1280 x 1024 after installing the large number of post 
upgrade updates from rawhide. (Newer X version)
The mirrors seemed highly congested with the new testers joining in. I 
tried to upgrade a prevous install via up2date and ended up getting a 
lot of 0 byte rpm downloads, xorg was included in the 0 byte rpms.
I then decided to attempt a GUI install from CD, which ended in the text 
upgrade.

Thanks for the confirmation that the GUI install problem was not unique 
to my computer. I guess a bug report against the GUI installation 
failure  is warranted. figuring out how X works post-install is the most 
important asect though.

Jim


One note about the XP host reference in the earlier posting. This was a 
vmware installation and only the fedora install discs were used. Then 
the kernel panicked when rebooting. I forgot the option needed to add to 
the kernel for vmware installations. I'll look up the entry later, but 
am in no rush to get vmware to work correctly. This was more related to 
my own curiousity and to test the discs before installing the real OS on 
this computer.

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