[CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-23 Thread Ritika Garg
I was doing the installation on DELL inspiron laptop and this problem
occurred for CentOS5.5 but not for CentOS5.3. So shall I install CentOS5.3
and then do yum update?
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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-22 Thread John Hinton

On 10/22/2010 1:31 AM, Ritika Garg wrote:
I havent't tried nofb. If I write linux nofb at boot:, then will the 
innstallation take place in text mode or graphical mode?



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It will still run in graphical mode.

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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-22 Thread Ritika Garg
I tried linux nofb and linux xdriver=VESA but the problem persists.
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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/20/10 10:38 PM, Ritika Garg wrote:
 I had posted the following question 4-5 days ago. I want to add 
 something to the question which is important. The question was:
 During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installation was 
 interrupted due to an error in a rpm package as the DVD had lot of 
 scratches. So I burned image of CentOS5.5 on DVD. I selected 
 installation in graphical mode. The first graphical interface screen 
 comes from where we proceed further by clicking next. This screen is 
 almost black and its impossible to carry out further installation as 
 visibility is very poor.
 I was trying above for Dell Inspiron laptop which has Windows7 
 installed on it. I checked the CentOS5.5 DVD on another system which 
 is desktop and found that the graphical interface is perfectly alright 
 there. So is there any setting that has to be done in the laptop?

well, Dell has made a few 100 model inspirons, and some of those had 
several optional graphics modules (my wife's inspiron E1705 could have 
had a ATI or one of several Geforce Go modules).Some of them may 
have graphics controllers that aren't well supported at all by linux, 
like the Inspiron Mini10(1010) model I tried, with Poulsbo graphics, 
very poorly supported out of the box, and even the downlaodable drivers 
really aren't very good.




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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-21 Thread JohnS

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 00:28 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 10/20/10 10:38 PM, Ritika Garg wrote:
  I had posted the following question 4-5 days ago. I want to add 
  something to the question which is important. The question was:
  During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installation was 
  interrupted due to an error in a rpm package as the DVD had lot of 
  scratches. So I burned image of CentOS5.5 on DVD. I selected 
  installation in graphical mode. The first graphical interface screen 
  comes from where we proceed further by clicking next. This screen is 
  almost black and its impossible to carry out further installation as 
  visibility is very poor.
  I was trying above for Dell Inspiron laptop which has Windows7 
  installed on it. I checked the CentOS5.5 DVD on another system which 
  is desktop and found that the graphical interface is perfectly alright 
  there. So is there any setting that has to be done in the laptop?
 
 well, Dell has made a few 100 model inspirons, and some of those had 
 several optional graphics modules (my wife's inspiron E1705 could have 
 had a ATI or one of several Geforce Go modules).Some of them may 
 have graphics controllers that aren't well supported at all by linux, 
 like the Inspiron Mini10(1010) model I tried, with Poulsbo graphics, 
 very poorly supported out of the box, and even the downlaodable drivers 
 really aren't very good.
---
Without knowing what it really has you can try the absolute basic which
is:
xdriver=VESA in the anaconda boot prompt..

John

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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-21 Thread John Hinton

On 10/21/2010 1:38 AM, Ritika Garg wrote:
I had posted the following question 4-5 days ago. I want to add 
something to the question which is important. The question was:
During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installation was 
interrupted due to an error in a rpm package as the DVD had lot of 
scratches. So I burned image of CentOS5.5 on DVD. I selected 
installation in graphical mode. The first graphical interface screen 
comes from where we proceed further by clicking next. This screen is 
almost black and its impossible to carry out further installation as 
visibility is very poor.
I was trying above for Dell Inspiron laptop which has Windows7 
installed on it. I checked the CentOS5.5 DVD on another system which 
is desktop and found that the graphical interface is perfectly alright 
there. So is there any setting that has to be done in the laptop?



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Have you tried nofb during the install process? I have had to use this 
on certain flat screens.


John Hinton

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Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-21 Thread Ritika Garg
I havent't tried nofb. If I write linux nofb at boot:, then will the
innstallation take place in text mode or graphical mode?
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[CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-20 Thread Ritika Garg
I had posted the following question 4-5 days ago. I want to add something to
the question which is important. The question was:
During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installation was interrupted
due to an error in a rpm package as the DVD had lot of scratches. So I
burned image of CentOS5.5 on DVD. I selected installation in graphical mode.
The first graphical interface screen comes from where we proceed further by
clicking next. This screen is almost black and its impossible to carry out
further installation as visibility is very poor.
I was trying above for Dell Inspiron laptop which has Windows7 installed on
it. I checked the CentOS5.5 DVD on another system which is desktop and found
that the graphical interface is perfectly alright there. So is there any
setting that has to be done in the laptop?
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[CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-17 Thread Ritika Garg
During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installation was interuppted
due to an error in a rpm package as the DVD had lot of scratches. So I
burned image of CentOS5.5 on DVD. I selected installation in graphical mode.
The first graphical interface screen comes from where we proceed further by
clicking next. This screen is almost black and its impossible to carry out
further installation as visibility is very poor.
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