Re: Laptop Display Problems

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:09:37PM -0400, Annette T Robart wrote:

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Laptop Display problems
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Michael A. Peters wrote:

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:37 -0400, Terry Snyder wrote:
On 4/29/06, Annette T Robart <ARobart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there, please excuse me; I am totally new to this
product. I have installed FC1 to my desktop with absolutely
no problems. It came with my textbook for my Unix class. Now
I am trying to install it on an extra laptop that I don't use.
It was a new hard drive so it is the only thing on it. It is
an IBM A21P 850Mhz, with 512 ram and a 15 inch monitor. It
installs fine, but it stops at the monitor and I'm not sure
what to pick?? I don't see anything in the documentation and
nothing in the BIOS. I guessed a couple times and when it
boots up the X window fails. I get "bad mode clock/interface",
hsync out of range, fatal error, no screens found.

Does anyone know what I should pick for a monitor and what
range I should pick?

Thanks so much!

Annette

Hi and welcome to Fedora.

Om my IBM Thinkpad T20 - I use Generic LCD at 1024x768 as the monitor -
and it works.

I believe the 1024x768 Thinkpad display is an "IBM 9514-B TFT Panel".
That's what I use on m T41.


That being said - Fedora Core 1 is really old and no longer supported.
I suggest you get a copy of Fedora Core 4 or Fedora Core 5 and try that.

Note that installing FC5 on my Thinkpad T20 was a little tricky, FC4
installs just dandy - both are currently supported with official
updates. FC5 might install as intended for you though, I don't know.

I do not recommend using FC1 at this point in time.

Seconded.

Well I've tried everything else, I guess you are right. I'll have to go with
Core 4. I just need to find it on a Cd-rom. I found it on the Internet as a
download but it was so many individual files, it was confusing and they were
still too large. I wasn't even sure what I was supposed to download, but it
didn't matter because they were taking forever to download even with my
satellite and I had to quit.

Rather than download individual files, set up bittorrent
(http://www.bittorrent.com/) and use it to pull in either the CD-ROM
images or a DVD image. (I prefer the DVD images, but you may not.) It
will take a while, but the nice thing about bittorrent is that it has
redundancy; should your connection go down it will pick up where it
left off. Also, you can throttle it if need be. Do expect at least a
day for the download, though.

You may burn the images. If you have an extant Linux installation,
look for k3b or xcdroast. If you aren't sure what to do, let us know
which program you have; someone here should be able to walk you
through. Be sure to burn the images as images, not as one monster file
in a new image.

You may also use the images to perform a network installation by
setting up another box as a local yum repository (my preferred method;
http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html). It's more work to set up but
pays off in ease of upgrades and updates later on.

And there are vendors out there from whom you can buy CDs (and
probably DVDs by now). cheapbytes.com is one; others exist.

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