Re: Re: EMC approved hardware

antson

Well the graphic screen during the install tells us that Anaconda can
correctly recognize some kind of display chip/system and drive it well
enough to run the installation that way. Previous suggestions are good.
I think that the corrupt install is less likely that a missed default
display setting. I have seen these things use one chip definition during
install and then switch to another during run -- and the one switched to
does not produce good results.

Since the BDI starts with a graphical login and that window is corrupt.
Press <control><alt><F2> when the display comes up and it will switch you
to a terminal. From that terminal you should log in as root and run the
program Xconfigurator. Unlike dos, you will need to follow case when you
type this in. Note that <control><alt><F7> will get you back to the
graphic display as long as x-windows is running.

Go through Xconfigurator one time and accept the defaults. Be sure to use
the test procedure and see if the displayed screen works. If it does
press the yes button and the ok on the next screen. This will save the
changes.

Switch back to the <F7> screen and press <control><alt><backspace> to
restart the x server. Sometimes I have to nudge my old pc a bit by
pressing <spacebar> after a bit of blank screen. If this set of
keypresses don't work and you can't work with the normal startup screen,
you can enter reboot, or <control><alt><delete> if F2 and your system
should reboot and pick up the new values.

If your display is still messed up try lower values. If 640x480 8bit
color and a small video memory doesn't work then it will be time to think
about changing display driver definitions or even the xfree version.

HTH

Ray

>    From: "Tony Dickson" <antson@...>
>
> This may sound strange, it had the mill with EMC with a blue background
> and I could select options with the mouse AND it had "back and next
> buttons" at the bottom. It sounds like Graphic mode. But I got this when
> I was loading. I got through that after messing with it. Now when I turn
> on the computer and boots off C drive thats when I get the gray and
> light gray vertical lines.