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March 25th, 2005 15:00
Problems with Fedora 3 on Intel 810e
Hi. I installed Fedora Core 3 for the first time yesterday on a Dimension L700cx (700 MHz Celeron) with Win ME, 20 GB hard drive, integrated Intel 810e graphics, and a Samsung Syncmaster 957MB CRT.
After using the initial boot screen to check my 4 CDs, the Fedora install screen came up. Nothing seemed to be wrong until I tried to scroll down the text box on the left-hand side of the screen. Even though I was pulling the scroll bar down, the text stayed the same except for 3 or 4 lines at the bottom that got garbled. I discovered that, for some reason, pushing the tab key after scrolling in most cases forced the text to display properly. I found this inconvenient, but I decided to push ahead with the install anyway. Using the tab key to read the text boxes, I was able to get all the way to the final step, choosing the packages to install (I was attempting to do a custom "everything" install), with everything but the text boxes apparently working fine. When I got to the package installation choice screen, nothing happened. I waited a few moments, and then I happened to move my mouse, and a few boxes appeared, but not all of them, and this time the text that was not in boxes didn't show up at all. I restarted, and the same thing happened. I tried typing "linux nofb" and then "linux lowres" at the boot screen, but the same thing happened at the last screen.
I then tried the "linux text" install, which seemed to work fine. After installation, the login screen appeared. I logged in, and the Setup Agent appeared, with the same bizarre text problems. I got through that and got to the desktop, which didn't seem to have any problems, but double-clicking anything made the screen scramble with alternating stripes of colored dots and plain black.
Hoping the problems were gnome-related, I tried KDE and XFCE, but they wouldn't even load the desktop. As a last resort, a tried logging in as root at the command line after pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 at the login screen, and running system-config-display, but I had the same problem where the graphical window came up, most things were missing from it. Moving my mouse, I could see a few options, but clicking made the screen freeze.
To make it clear the login screen as well as the gnome desktop almost always display without problems, but when I click anything the screen scrambles. The installer correctly identified my monitor on Intel 810 graphics.
Does anyone know what I could do to solve this problem? Thanks a lot for the help.
After using the initial boot screen to check my 4 CDs, the Fedora install screen came up. Nothing seemed to be wrong until I tried to scroll down the text box on the left-hand side of the screen. Even though I was pulling the scroll bar down, the text stayed the same except for 3 or 4 lines at the bottom that got garbled. I discovered that, for some reason, pushing the tab key after scrolling in most cases forced the text to display properly. I found this inconvenient, but I decided to push ahead with the install anyway. Using the tab key to read the text boxes, I was able to get all the way to the final step, choosing the packages to install (I was attempting to do a custom "everything" install), with everything but the text boxes apparently working fine. When I got to the package installation choice screen, nothing happened. I waited a few moments, and then I happened to move my mouse, and a few boxes appeared, but not all of them, and this time the text that was not in boxes didn't show up at all. I restarted, and the same thing happened. I tried typing "linux nofb" and then "linux lowres" at the boot screen, but the same thing happened at the last screen.
I then tried the "linux text" install, which seemed to work fine. After installation, the login screen appeared. I logged in, and the Setup Agent appeared, with the same bizarre text problems. I got through that and got to the desktop, which didn't seem to have any problems, but double-clicking anything made the screen scramble with alternating stripes of colored dots and plain black.
Hoping the problems were gnome-related, I tried KDE and XFCE, but they wouldn't even load the desktop. As a last resort, a tried logging in as root at the command line after pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 at the login screen, and running system-config-display, but I had the same problem where the graphical window came up, most things were missing from it. Moving my mouse, I could see a few options, but clicking made the screen freeze.
To make it clear the login screen as well as the gnome desktop almost always display without problems, but when I click anything the screen scrambles. The installer correctly identified my monitor on Intel 810 graphics.
Does anyone know what I could do to solve this problem? Thanks a lot for the help.
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micmaxe
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March 25th, 2005 20:00
DDimension
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April 5th, 2005 23:00
Your post saved me so much research. I can barely thank you enough. My post has sat for two weeks without an answer at linuxquestions.org, and if it hadn't been for you, I might have had to give up on Linux by now. The post you led me to turned out to have the exact solution to my problem. I used vi to edit the xorg.conf file, and then updated X; then I removed the "noaccel" option from xorg.conf, and everything is working without a hitch. Thank you very much again.
micmaxe
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April 6th, 2005 00:00