Re: XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 03/14/04

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To: pierre.deboeck@skynet.be, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Pierre De Boeck became daring and sent these 0.6K bytes,
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I installed FC1 and XP on my i5150, with
    > GRUB as the boot loader on the MBR.
    >
    > When I boot FC1, I have a few problems:
    >
    > - the display and /or frequency refresh that I selected
    > (Dell laptop 1600*1200 and default H/V refresh) was not
    > the rigth one since the screen is blurry.

    Define the correct frequency ranges yourself manually, you may have to
    google the specs on your display for the V&H refr.

    eg /etc/X11/XF86Configi from my inspiron 1100:

    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier "Monitor0"
            VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
            ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
            HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
            VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
            Option "dpms"
    EndSection

    This is default stuff from Anaconda, but you get the idea.
     
    > - when I forced the system to boot in "console mode" with
    > vga=ask, the system hangs, complaining on insmod with floppy.o.
    > AS my system has no floppy, it seems that this causes a problem
    > to some module loading.

    type this into term as root to not attempt loading the floppy modules:
    echo "alias floppy off" >> /etc/modules.conf

    not sure why or if this is actually causing your notebook to hang, but
    there is one easy way to see :)

    > How can I fix these 2 problems? 

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