Re: RH 6.2 install causes screen to explode

["BABA Yoshihiko" <baba_yoshihiko@example.com>]

Dear,

In general, laptops are not easy to configure if you want to run X, or it 
have been. (this doesn't apple to apple laptops) The current distros do very 
good jobs though.

> > The second time around, I took the option of installing RH in expert
> > mode. Perhaps there were one or two more questions, but anyway I wasn't
> > asked anything about video (or any other aspect of hardware, for that
> > matter) and again the screen turned white.
>
>Try 'expert text' to start the install in text mode. Choose to install 
>whatever
>you need, including X and boot into text mode after the install. You can 
>then
>configure X with 'Xconfigurator'.

With Vine2.1.5 and Turbolinux 6 Installers, which are both based on some old 
RedHat I think, the same thing happened to IBM ThinkPad iSeries 1800, even 
on text-mode installer.  RedHat7.1J, on the other hand, worked fine.

>
> > After I press Ctrl-Alt-Del the screen briefly goes back into text mode
> > and I see something about "Trident", "SVGA", etc., etc., but the damn
> > thing reboots before I have time to write anything down.
> >
> > What should I do?  (Be patient and let the installation do its thing
> > with my screen? Just go back to Win98 and Microsoft "Bob"? Get an iMac?
> > Suicide?)

I have HP OmnibookXE2 which uses Trident Cyberblade.  I have tried several 
"working" XF86COnfig, but none of them worked successfully. You can try some 
of them on your laptop.  If it worked well, give me your XF86COnfig. :)

>
>No dont get Suicide. Then again, its better than the other options. If 
>youre
>really depressed, wait for Win XP. :)

Well, iMac with OSX is not a bad option, because it is based on BSD although 
they modified a lot. You can run almost anything including X instead of 
OSX's default "Aqua".

>
> > If you think I have adequate brainpower to proceed in my attempted
> > escape from M$, suggestions on how to partition my paltry 1.4GB of
> > single and unreplaceable hard drive would be welcome too. (How big a
> > swap disk, etc.)
>
>Depends on how much RAM you have and how much youll use after installation. 
>I
>have one server with 1GB of swap and a lappy with just 8MB (+8MB physical 
>RAM).
>About 100MB should be more than enough for swap. For starters, just use the 
>rest
>of the disk for '/'.
>

BABA Yoshihiko
Daido Information Technology
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