Hey Y'all,
I've been Googeling and experimenting for two days trying to find a way
to deal with the Intel 845-G video chipset in this Dell Dimension 2400.
First, it doesn't have a DVD drive so I have to install from a CD.
When I try to boot into the Live CD I get a video error something like,
Undefined video mode number: 317. It hangs at the splash screen.
I was able to make a minimal install with the Minimal Install CD. I
used yum to update and then install the desktop and X server. I managed
to get it to bring up the desktop by adding nomodeset to the grub
command line and by using the vesa driver but I can only get 640x480
resolution and the image is offset on the screen to the left and down.
I tried a netinstall. It was looking good but the video bug crashed
that too.
I just swapped out the CD drive with another known good drive. Still no
joy. I wasn't expecting that to make a difference so I wasn't
disappointed when it didn't.
There's a lot a cruft on the internet about problems with the Intel
845-G chipset but no solutions that work for me. Does anyone know
how to get an successful installation on this hardware?
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