F10 i386 preview install on gateway MX7120 fails to start X

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Nov 16 21:32:54 UTC 2008


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?
>
> And, have you tried booting with "nomodeset"? Does that work?

  why, yes ... yes, it does.  and i'm not too proud to ask ... what
exactly did that accomplish?  (i verified a graphical install only to
the extent of getting that first screen -- i'm assuming things will
continue to work as i progress through the rest of the install.)

rday
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