Fedora GUI is not loading on Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Fri Jan 23 19:39:29 UTC 2009


sivakumar purushothaman wrote:
> 
> Hi Toshiba,
>  
> I have Toshiba Satellite L305-S5907 laptop with Microsoft Vista.I tried installing Fedora 9 on my laptop but GUI is not loading on it,system will try to load GUI and showing different colors of lines and screen blinks continously , but desktop is not loading .Laptop Monitor specification is 15.4” diagonal widescreen TruBrite® TFT LCD display at resolu1280x800 native resolution (WXGA).Except GUI everything is working fine.I tried startx command but then also same scenario is happening.
>  
> Graphics details
> 
> Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M with 128MB-1759MB
> dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
>  
> Please help me to  fix it.

Try booting with the "nomodeset" option.
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