RedHat 9 install prob!

[Patrick Thurmond]

Ok everyone, last night I figured out what caused this problem. I should
have figured it out sooner, being that Linux tends to lag a bit on new
technologies (either that or RedHat is incompetent). Ok what I found
originally was that installing RedHat 9 in graphical mode didn't work,
the screen just goes blank. Text mode was OK but once installed and
booting to RH9 X Windows didn't come up. 

Now what I did was try to install RH8, this is where I started
realizing the cause of the problem... The graphical screen did come up
in here, however it was adjusted 2 inches too low on the screen, so I
couldn't see the control buttons. This posed a problem. So I tried to
adjust the screen but realised I couldn't adjust it on the monitor
because it was on the DVI cable... ding, ding, ding.... So I Switch my
LCD screen to VGA and rebooted and was able to install RH8 just fine. 
WTF is what I was thinking. RH8 is obviously built better than 9. So
then I kept it on VGA and upgraded to RH9, this time the graphical
install worked and so did the OS once booted. Yeaa!!! One more note I
noticed that RH8 was able to detect my monitor as the FPD1810 LCD
screen and my vid crd as a Geforce 4 (with enabled hardware 3D
acceleration), but RH9 only detected a generic monitor and wasn't able
to enable hardware 3D acceleration. Lovely!!!

So in conclusion RH9 sucks more than 8 and Linux (at least from RedHat)
doesn't support DVI video cables which is a 3 or 4 year old technology
and has been prevelant for at least 2 years.

-Patrick

On 06-29-2003 12:03 pm, you wrote:

> Hey all, I am having trouble installing RedHat 9 on my second HDD

> (60GB).

>  

> Every time I boot up it gets to the media test screen which you can
skip

> or test and I usually skip but I have done it both ways and I am
trying

> to use the graphical install. If I do the graphical install then once
I

> get past the media test screen the screen gives a little text and
then

> throws up a black screen and doesn't go any further.

>  

> If I do a text install it does get past this black screen and lets
me

> install it.

>  

> The copy of RH9 that I am using I downloaded as an ISO and burnt to
a

> disc. I have downloaded it twice, once back in April (when it first
came

> out) and once yesterday (in hopes I had a bad download or burn from
the

> first one). But both CDs I burnt had the same problem. Any ideas as
to

> why this is not going fully into the graphical install?

>  

> -Patrick

> 

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