Steve Campbell wrote, On 11/09/2009 03:40 PM: > > 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. >>>>> <SNIP> >>> 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. >>> <SNIP> > > 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 > And is probably still around in Fedora 12, so if we want CentOS 6 (and the upstream provider's version 6) to have it right, we should probably hit the hardware with some live CD's and BZ the results. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-November/msg00106.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532842 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493441 I would have piled on, with info from a live CD, but my bugzilla account has gotten buggered by some .mil address protection schem. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter