Toshiba satellite A100-534: screen problem

Silverrocker · #1 1st July 2006, 12:31 PM

hey,
I'm having a problem while installing fedora core 5.
Everything goes nicely untill I get an error: probing monitor> failed
After that my screen looks verry weird and I cant make enything out of it.

***bob*** · #2 1st July 2006, 12:39 PM

Closed the other thread (no double-posting) but moved this one to Installation for better results.

Silverrocker · #3 1st July 2006, 01:54 PM

I found a screenshot that simular to my problem

Dillby · #4 3rd July 2006, 12:41 AM

i have foud a temp fix to the problem,
install FC5 through the text installer, login at the text prompt,
type: nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
scroll down untill you get to the videocard section, where i has "redeon" or a nvidia driver replace that with "vesa" which is a gerenic video driver,
save the file, type nano /etc/inittab and change where i shows is:3:initdefault: chang the 3 to a 5, restart and the machine, thet changes that you have made will tell linux to boot in a generic display driver and boot up in the GUI interface,
if you have any problems let me know,

Silverrocker · #5 3rd July 2006, 01:46 AM

ok I will try this right away...

Silverrocker · #6 3rd July 2006, 03:46 AM

when I read the /ect/X11/xorg.conf file it says [new file] @ the bottem of the screen.
I guess the file doesn't exist or im doing something rong while I'm trying to load it into nano for editing.

Silverrocker · #7 3rd July 2006, 01:03 PM

omg I made a mistake.... instead of etc I used ect
Dillby thx for your help it did the job

Dillby · #8 4th July 2006, 12:03 AM

nice, to get fedora to use your ati card correctly try and do teh following,

connect to the internet and update the kernel to the latest version, go to http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page or for fedora do to http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Fedora_Core if you are running 5 go to Fedora Core 5 Installation Guide and follow the instructions,

if you have any problems let me know

Silverrocker · #9 4th July 2006, 01:56 AM

Im having a new problem at the moment. If you would care to help me then reply on this thread that I opened because it has to do with something completly else. I dicided to leave a link because you started talking about connecting to the internet. I hope you can help me just the way you did last time. thx again.

here is the link:

Toshiba satellite A100-534: Wlan