[NTLUG:Discuss] Laptop Redhat 7.1

[Fred James]

I had a similar experience with Red Hat 7.1 on a laptop (Dell Latitude 
C850), except is was a fresh install and not an upgrade.

What I found was that no matter what graphical configuration I selected, 
when I pushed the test button it seemed to ignore all my selections in 
favor of settings it preferred.  Then I found that if my selections did 
not match those that it preferred I would experience trouble with X - 
such as the black screen you describe.

The solution seems to be to make your selections match those shown in 
the "test" screen image.

Frank Lewis Jr. wrote:

> I've seen this on systems that boot directly into X. Is this the case
> with your setup?
> 
> -Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Scott Anderson
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: NTLUG
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Laptop Redhat 7.1
> 
> My laptop has been running Redhat 7.0 without problem.  When I attempted
> to upgrade to 7.1 I ran into some problems.  Initially the install
> seemed to be successful.  When I boot LILO succeeds and Linux runs
> through the normal boot starting process.  The screen then goes black
> and a Linux prompt never occurs.
> 
>  If I do a hard boot after this, I get several messages saying things
> like:
> 
> Inode 128372 i_blocks is 64, should be 24.
> 
> 
> Has anyone experienced a similar situation with a laptop running Redhat
> 7.1?
> 
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