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