F10 Booting Problem

[nitinmohan]

Hi,

I am encountering some display problems while booting Fedora 10. The video card I am using is "ATI Technologies Inc RS485 (Radeon Express 1100 IGP) VGA compatible. While booting fedora I get the modules until "drm" loaded. Then after echoing the message "Initializing Hardware configuration" the booting hangs... I get a black screen with vertical colored lines and nothing happens after that. But when I connected my display terminal to a different monitor(not using ATI card) I find the "spinfinity" boot screen displayed though my monitor remains black. I googled this problem and found that using the kernel parameter "nomodeset" would bypass this problem and also many users using ATI video cards are experiencing this problem. My problem was indeed solved by using the parameter "nomodeset" but in the expense of that awesome looking boot screen. My question is whether I can boot fedora 10 without any issues and also without using the parameter "nomodeset"?

[devils casper]

Are you adding that parameter manually in GRUB menu or edited grub.conf file?

[nitinmohan]

I am manually adding them in the grub menu... I haven't edited the grub.conf file yet!!!

And I also used this parameter "acpi=off". Though I get the graphical boot screen perfectly, my system slows down. It takes a long time even to log in...

[devils casper]

Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file with root privileges and add parameters at the end of kernel line.

su -
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.