[Cialug] RHEL install Inspiron 9300

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Its an Inspiron 9300, 1gb ram, Pentium M 1.6ghz, 17in wide screen
display Sony DW-D56A DVD+-RW, on board broadcom 440x 10/100 ethernet and
Intel PRO/wireless 2200BG. Video is ATI Mobility Radeon X300

The native display resolution is 1440x900, which btw, makes a lot
websites look terrible...



On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:40, Nathaniel Petersen wrote:
> Not an X server issue.
> 
> There is a problem with most of the latest Dell equipment with this
> issue.  Even the Debian installer will get that 'weird' video issue. 
> While I am not willing to wager without further research, I found that
> adding the "vga=791" to the boot options will resolve the text-based
> install.  No work has been down with the graphical install to know if
> this resolves the graphical install.
> 
> The avenue that I wish to explore is if the video adapters for the
> Dell Inspiron and Optiplex series have a higher 'default' video
> resolution.  I know with the Optiplex that had this problem, the LCD
> was using the DVI connection and was reporting a signal equal to the
> native resolution.
> 
> Dave, do you mind letting me know what the hardware specs are on your Inspiron?
> 
> -Nick
> 
> On 1/25/06, David Champion <dave at visionary.com> wrote:
> > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > > Anyone have any difficultly installing RHEL WS 3.X on an Dell Inspiron
> > > 9300 laptop?
> > >
> > > I get to the point where it loads start to load the kernel image, then
> > > the display does this really funky fade/color change and then it hangs.
> > > I also tried RHEL 4.x and had the same issue. Same problem when doing a
> > > "text" install also.
> > >
> > > Anyone have ideas as to where to start looking?
> > >
> > > :) Dave
> >
> > That's an X server problem.
> >
> > I'm gonna guess that RHEL doesn't have drivers for something as new as that.
> >
> > Do you know what video chipset it has?
> >
> > I bet you a box of floppy diskettes that Mandriva 2006 would work on it. :p
> >
> > -dc
> >
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