FYI, I've started seeing corrupt, unusable video modes on a Dell PowerEdge sc420 with recent kernels (after 2.6.33). The hardware is the on-board intel E7221, which uses the i915 video driver. The work around is to append 'nomodeset' to the kernel boot line. Also remove any vga=xxx parameters.
Fedora 13, (FC13), kernel 2.6.33.3 is OK, Fedora 14, (FC14), kernel 2.6.35.45 needs nomodeset. If you are booting Fedora 14 installer or Live CD, choose the boot option with "Basic Video" since this will add the nomodeset parameter as well as set xdriver=vesa. I was not successful in booting the Mandriva 2010.1 installer (kernel 2.6.33.7) at all. The Mandriva graphical boot has a bug that always adds a set vga mode 'vga=xxx' which will cause the video problems. Appending nomodeset after the vga= has no effect so there is no way to boot the distributed install media for Mandriva 2010.1. Hope This Helps (someone else) --Rob lspci: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation E7221 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04) _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
