Ron Loftin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 14:44 -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: > >> nate wrote: >> >>> Steve Campbell wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm trying to install a newly downloaded Centos 5.4 on an older Dell >>>> PowerEdge 300. Unfortunately, it came with one of those ATI Rage 2.0 >>>> video cards. The install screens show fine, and the initial screen does >>>> fine, but once it starts the "firstboot" section, where I'm supposed to >>>> select the firewall and such, I get two thirds of the top of the screen >>>> and a repeat of the top third on the bottom. Hence I don't get the >>>> bottom third where all of the selection buttons are. >>>> >>>> Anybody have a clue how to get around this? >>>> >>>> >>> You mean R300 ? Try installing using a serial console. >>> >>> nate >>> >>> >>> >>> >> nate, thanks but... >> >> R300? >> >> Don't have or know what a serial monitor is also. >> >> I found a link to something on google that sort of suggests it's a >> problem with the xorg.conf file and the monitor, not the video adapter. >> I'll see if I can't get it resolved and report back. >> > > If your only problem is that you can't get to buttons on the bottom of > the screen, try "alt-left-mouse-button" to drag the window around on the > screen to see the parts that are hidden. > >> steve >> >> >> I think I fixed it. The problem seems to have been a problem with the "Monitor" section not being created in the xorg.conf file during installation due to it not being detected properly. I copied a section from an older Centos 3 XF86Config file and it seemed to do just fine. This problem has been around since 5.0, as far as I could determine steve