Re: F10 and Intel 82845/82945 graphics install and run

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:12:57PM -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 
> I have seen quite a lot of bugzilla reports concerning graphical install as
> well as running X issues with 82845, and some 82945, graphics chipsets, and
> some reports go back to F8 days and seem were never resolved even up to F10.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292

> I have two machines (one with each of these chipsets) and need to update
> them to F10 using a clean install.

Use 'xdriver=vesa' in boot parameters or a text install.  Follow
up with a workaround described in the referenced report.

> On one machine (which has 82845G) the
> graphical install failed as soon as the graphical part of the boot started
> during an install attempt earlier today.

Most likely a display driver went into an infinite loop as detailed
in bugzilla.

    Michal