Display goes bad, seemingly randomly, during install of FC3

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:19:35 -0400
Arthur Pemberton <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm currently talking my friend through and FC3 install over the phone. 
> Her video card and monitor seem to get properly detected. However, 
> seemingly randomly, the display goes bad as what she describes as a 
> "barcode with color" like display. THe first time this happened on 
> Anaconda launch. The second time happened while she was choosign the 
> timezone on the map. The third happened while she was customizing the 
> packages. As I type she's rebooting and start fresh from memory of my 
> instructions.
> 
> Any ideas on what ould be causign this? I've never encountered such before.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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Sounds like the display isn't set up properly. Have her boot in to run level 3
by appending a 3 to the kernel on the bootup. From level 3 she will be able to
run system-config-display to set up her display.

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Richard E Miles
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