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jonij 04-04-2005 03:56 PM

problem installing on laptop dell d610
 
When i start installing the fc3 after it checks the cds i got a a black screen and nothing works.....

What can i do?

Simon Bridge 04-06-2005 01:31 AM

well, you can always try an installation without the disk check :)

however, it sounds like the disks are bad...

t3gah 04-06-2005 01:33 AM

Re: problem installing on laptop dell d610
 
Quote:

Originally posted by jonij
When i start installing the fc3 after it checks the cds i got a a black screen and nothing works.....

What can i do?

When the FC3 CD first starts up you are at a screen that asks you want to do before continuing. What needs to be typed to get FC3 onto the system before you configure for apm and acpi is for you to type the following first:

Code:

linux acpi=off apm=off
and then press enter. If the install still goes black after checking the CD then there's something wrong with the ISO's you burned.

jonij 04-07-2005 03:45 PM

but the cd are ok.

Simon Bridge 04-07-2005 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonij
but the cd are ok.
But how do you know this - the check completed and said they were OK "beginning installation"?

Did you try

Quote:

Originally posted by t3gah
When the FC3 CD first starts up you are at a screen that asks you want to do before continuing. What needs to be typed to get FC3 onto the system before you configure for apm and acpi is for you to type the following first:

Code:

linux acpi=off apm=off
and then press enter.
... if so, what happened?

Have you read the faq in Fedora Forum ?

:confused:

jonij 04-09-2005 03:10 AM

Someboy know what driver should i download for this laptop f610 because on dell there is no driver for linux

t3gah 04-09-2005 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonij
Someboy know what driver should i download for this laptop f610 because on dell there is no driver for linux
Is this a D610 or F610?

Simon Bridge 04-11-2005 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jonij
Someboy know what driver should i download for this laptop f610 because on dell there is no driver for linux
in your title you say you have D610 and here you say F610 - the difference may be important.

As to the question... what to you need the driver for?
AFAIK, you don't need a special driver to install linux on a dell laptop - only the ability to boot from CD or DVD and linux compatible architecture.

Is this still what you are trying to do? If you have solved the previously stated problems, please let us know so we can think about other things and so others can see what you did that worked. If not, then I guess there must be a good reason for ignoring the reasonable and sound requests for more info. which you don't want us to know about???

t3gah 04-11-2005 04:47 AM

Did you follow the ACPI howto in the LQ.org wiki section and/or tutorial section ?

What about my link in my signature for Linux On Laptops... did you give that a whirl?

lisanels 07-09-2005 09:57 AM

I had to download and use the FC4 DVD image to get my D610 working. All the downloads of the CD images failed to check using multiple sources for the files, and multiple CD burners. I gave up and bought a DVD burner and that worked great. Also, the 'sum *FC4' showed that ALL the images I downloaded were the same. For each disk that is.

mfhacker 08-31-2006 12:21 PM

Dell Latitude D610
 
I install Fedora Core 1 (I need a 2.4 kernel) on my Dell laptop. I thought nothing was working too. Turns out the video doesn't automatically set. If I plug in an external monitor and switch the laptop between CRT/LCD (Fn F8), the video displays correctly. At this point I can switch the display input (Fn F8), unplug the monitor and proceed as normal. If I reboot, same problem...haven't figured that out yet.


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