boot with mode=vesa

[Justin Conover]

On 7/23/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:05 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video
> > card and using "nv" for example?  I have a newer mobile 8400 card and
> > the screen just goes black when it starts the gui.  I have been trying
> > to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the
> > initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and
> > then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver.  FC6 installs
> > but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :)
>
> On the installer command line:
>
> xdriver=vesa
>
> If you've already installed, boot into runlevel 3 and edit xorg.conf.
>
> And yeah, G80 LVDS is broken, even upstream.  I'm currently beating on
> it, hopefully have a fix soon.  F7 is broken because the nv driver
> attempts to claim all G80 devices as belonging to nv, which turned out
> to be a mistake.
>
> - ajax
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Thank you, that is what I was looking for!  Do you need my new laptop to
test on like my ati laptop :)
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