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?
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.
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
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.
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