Installing FC on Acer Ferrari 3400

hofman22 · 06-20-2005, 02:14 PM

Hi All,

Today I received my brand new Acer Ferrari Laptop. I tried to install Fedora Core 3 (64-bit) but did not succeed. The system boots properly but than the screen blackens an nothing is responding. I tried to boot in text mode same result. I tried booting with noprobe again same result: black screen. Finally I tried a i386 version again black...

Please help me. What is going wrong? Is ther anyone who has experience on this ? Or did anyone succefully install another distro?

Thanks for your help

Jan

macemoneta · 06-21-2005, 08:36 AM

The Linux on Laptops website is your friend. The short answer is to boot with: linux nofb

bluesheet · 06-22-2005, 04:07 AM

As I know, FC didn't support 64-bit CPU, so it is better to install a 64-bit Linux OS. you can try SUSE and Redhat AS.

macemoneta · 06-22-2005, 07:07 AM

Fedora Core most certainly DOES support x86_64 (AMD64 and Intel EM64T). I run it (in 64-bit native mode) on one of my machines.

ricklerre · 06-22-2005, 08:22 PM

heh, I just installed today with fedora core 4 and got the same problem. All you need to do is use an external monitor during the install, then when it asks you for display settings set it to the laptop display (generic LCD 1400x1050 millions of colors) and reboot. should run fine from then on, as that's what I'm writing this from.

hofman22 · 06-23-2005, 04:36 AM

Thanks. The nofb boot option worked.

Jan