LCD Install Problem with FC5

syborg · #1 5th April 2006, 03:28 AM

I have an older system (CA810E mb) with a LCD monitor that is currently dual booting Win98 and RHEL4. In the past I've had RH9, FC2, and FC3 installed on this machine. When I try to install FC5 all I get is a black screen when I boot. I've tried many different boot options including: vesa, text, lowres, noprobe, and skipddc with absolutely no success. I'm using this system as a test case before I upgrade my other systems. On a newer system 865PERL mb, NVIDIA graphics, and a CRT monitor, I was able boot and begin the installation. I'm in the middle of some projects so I don't want to upgrade this machine yet. However, I'd like to upgrade the older machine....if I can't get the older machine upgraded I may be forced to do something drastic like install SUSE 10.

Any help getting the the install to work with a LCD would be greatly appreciated.

syborg · #2 6th April 2006, 01:16 AM

OK. I'm giving up and installing SUSE now.

cmoraes · #3 6th April 2006, 06:47 AM

I had a similar problme so this might help.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...er+Aspire+5500

syborg · #4 8th April 2006, 12:43 AM

cmoraes....I can't evne get the text or vesa install to work on my machine. Otherwise I would have done as you suggested.

syborg · #5 17th April 2006, 01:07 AM

OK...I figured it out....sort of. The problem was that the text screen asking if you want to test your disks was not visible. So I choose to skip testing and the X-server started. Hooray. I am currently installing FC5 on the problem machine.