F9 with ASUS EAH3450 / ATI Radeon HD3450 bad video after install screens. - SOLVED

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jun 1 07:34:41 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 13:11 -0700, Mick M. wrote:
> the first thing I did was "yum -y upgrade", that did not fix it.
> I checked and it was running the "vesa" driver.

Interesting, as that's a generic (supposedly) "works with everything,
but with low performance" driver.

> I hooked up my old system (so I could read the screen).
> Then ran "system-config-display".
> I could then see the menu box for hardware -> configure.-> radeon.
> Back to the broken box.

For future reference:  When graphic go awry, you should be able to do
something like the following:

CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a text-only console, which should work on any
monitor regardless of driver (although I've had madly scrambled screens,
from time to time, on a laptop with a NVidia chipset).

Then, you can do login as root and  "system-config-display --reconfig"
to try configuring X from anew.

Then you can CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to the graphical screen, then hit
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X, and it'll restart and read the
configuration file.

If all goes well, CTRL+ALT+F1 and log out the root user.  But if you had
problems, do another reconfig with different options.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686

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