On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 07:05 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
> This particular system is not on the Internet. It was right were you said it
> would be. Unfortunately, more is needed to get 1600x1200 working on this old
> system. Vesa drivers work 'just' fine for what I'm going to be doing anyway
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote:
>Sent: Aug 23, 2010 8:37 PM
>To: Community support for Fedora users
>Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
>
>
>On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> &g
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:05 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> >
> >> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> >>
> >>> James,
> >>>
> >>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>
>>> James,
>>>
>>> My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
>>> driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally fou
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 21:07 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > My A22p has the same problem. I have had to use the basic (VESA) video
> > driver whenever installing Fedora. A couple of weeks ago I finally found
> > the 'gtf' utility which computed the r
On 08/23/2010 12:07 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Re-installed and now my video is still 'messed' up. Where can I find
> the gtf utility?
yum whatprovides /usr/bin/gtf
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Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
>> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
>> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 o
On 08/16/2010 02:27 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> I thought so. Could not find startx anywhere on the drive. I suspect
> my install/upgrade was not correct.
interesting.
'startx' is/was a part of 'xorg-x11-xinit' package.
that is, that is as it is in current versions sl5.4 that i am running.
g wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 09:11 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>
>
> entering 'startx' will start "X" server.
>
>
I thought so. Could not find startx anywhere on the drive. I suspect
my install/upgrade was not correct. "Doc" Savage warned me about this.
I'm starting over after blowing awa
On 08/15/2010 09:11 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Does it take a LONG time to boot into X or did I do something wrong?
determined by cpu speed, memory, hdd speed, and a few other things.
> And what can I do to revert the inittab back so I can mess with this
> file some more (actually key it into
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 20:03 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> For now, I'm going to attempt an install of FC8. I know it is EOL, but
>> I need to have Linux installed on the system for another project. Maybe
>> I can update to FC13 this way?
>>
>
> Jam
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
>> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
>> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 o
On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 03:24 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> There have been a lot of [r]evolutionary changes and extinctions
> between F8 and F13. There's no guarantee that you'll be able to jump
> over so many major versions without having an upgrade go "Huh?" and
> tumble into dependency h
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 20:03 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> For now, I'm going to attempt an install of FC8. I know it is EOL, but
> I need to have Linux installed on the system for another project. Maybe
> I can update to FC13 this way?
James,
That may be a bridge too far. If you partition
JB wrote:
> JB yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
Hi,
is that what you are asking about ?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs
5 Hardware-related issues.
Miscellaneous graphical problems.
To use the vesa driver during installation, ...
>>> Follow
JB yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > is that what you are asking about ?
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs
> > > 5 Hardware-related issues.
> > > Miscellaneous graphical problems.
> > > To use the vesa driver during installation, ...
> > >
> > Followed the instructions, b
James McKenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>
> JB wrote:
> > James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
> >
> >
> >> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
> >>
> >> How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen?
> >>
> >> I don't readily see the ability to
JB wrote:
> James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>
>
>> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
>>
>> How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen?
>>
>> I don't readily see the ability to do this. Maybe I'm missing something.
>>
>> If it's in the
On 07/27/2010 06:50 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> JB wrote:
>> James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
>>>
>>> How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen?
>>>
>>> I don't readily see the ability to do thi
JB wrote:
> James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>
>
>> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
>>
>> How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen?
>>
>> I don't readily see the ability to do this. Maybe I'm missing something.
>>
>> If it's in the
JB wrote:
>Sent: Jul 27, 2010 12:58 PM
>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
>Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
>
>James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>
>>
>> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
>>
>>
James Mckenzie earthlink.net> writes:
>
> STOOPID question time from a long time Linux/UNIX sysadmin:
>
> How do I select the VESA video driver at the wonderful install screen?
>
> I don't readily see the ability to do this. Maybe I'm missing something.
>
> If it's in the docs, give me a sec
On 07/27/2010 07:54 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote:
>> Sent: Jul 27, 2010 6:23 AM
>> To: Community support for Fedora users
>> Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, Jame
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" wrote:
>Sent: Jul 27, 2010 6:23 AM
>To: Community support for Fedora users
>Subject: Re: Thinkpad A22p/Improper Video on Install
>
>On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
>> I'm trying to install FC8 on my
g wrote:
>
>James McKenzie wrote:
>> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
>> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
>> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
>> 1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 20:21 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
> 1/3 of screen followed b
g wrote:
> James McKenzie wrote:
>> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
an addition that i left out, fc8 is a bit old and no longer supported, and
has several security bugs.
if live cd for f12 or f13 work, consider using either of them.
--
peace out.
tc,hago
James McKenzie wrote:
> I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
> Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
> correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
> 1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
it is possible t
I'm trying to install FC8 on my old, creaky Thinkpad A22p (ATI Rage
Mobility Rage 3) and the video from the graphical installer is not
correct. I get about 1/3 of the orginal screen, then 1/3 of the third
1/3 of screen followed by that 1/3 again.
If I use the text installer, X will not start
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