While RedHat clearly has made an admirable effort to produce a consumer ready desktop on the Linux OS, a few areas were shortchanged by the new release. Video and sound installation work well on older, well known system boards and plugin cards. But, some later hardware has been left dangling, so to speak, and the tools that otherwise might have been used by experience RedHat users to attemp to correct video/sound problems, such as Xconfigurator, are nowhere to be found.
Web searches have revealed a number of workarounds that some people have been able to make work with a new RedHat 8.0 installation. But many non-successes have been repoted also. The best advice I can provide, for the black screen issue you describe is to install an older version of RedHat, say 7.3 and then upgrade it to RH 8 to pick up the new features. This is clearly not an ideal solution, and undermines RedHat's goal of dumbing down the desktop for neophyte users, but it will probably get you operational. Tom On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:35, Ben Russo wrote: > Alexis MOREAU wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > Yesterday one my HD under Windows died (RIP) and I decided to make an > > installation with RH 8.0. > > > > First problem : when Anaconda tries to go on installation screen, all > > become black, and everything looks like it was crashed. > > > > So I launched the installation on text mode, and everything was OK, all > > products were detected (not for my iiYama screen, which was not seen). > > > > Second problem, installation of XF86, I have a black screen too at the > > test step to see if all is OK ; my screen is not detected, but it is > > very strange to crash the computer. I must begin the installation again, > > because no XF86config file is created when everything is black. > > > > Do you know what's going on ? I have a MSI mothercard with the chipset > > nForce 1 (nVidia), and a iiYama MT900 1600*1200 maximum. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Alexis > > > > Try to do some troubleshooting to rule out potential problems. > It sounds to me like the box may not be crashing, but that the video > card is trying to drive the monitor in a refresh rate (not the same as > resolution) that the monitor doesn't support, and the monitor is turning > off. > > Can you use "CTRL F1" or "CTRL F2" key-press combinations to get back to > a console after starting X and getting a black screen? > > Have you tried configuring X for a Generig SVGA setting and seen if that > works? > > You may find that you have to make a custom mode line for XF86Config to > get a refresh rate that works. > > Tell us what your results are. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
