On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:44 -0800, Tim Hanson wrote:
In the two years I have had my Compaq 1500 laptop, I have at various times had Fedora Core 2 and SuSE (various, the last being 9.0) on it. I've never had problems with it until I tried to update to 9.2. Running sax2 brings up a white screen.
I tried plugging in another lcd external monitor, and resolution on that one was 640X480, 16 colors.
I had been routinely running 1280x1024, with 16 bit resolution.
It has to be the driver, and in 9.0 I got good results using a generic LCD monitor. That no longer works.
Hi Tim, Did you try "SaX2 -l" (lower case "L"?) or "SaX2 --lowres"? This will invoke SaX2 in standard 16 color 640 x 480 60 Hz VGA mode, allowing you to proceed with the installation graphically. This usually circumvents the dreaded "black screen of death" -- or in your case, hopefully, the "white screen" of death. ;-) DDC detection is switched off in this case, so you'll need to define or pick your display components manually. HTH & regards, - Carl