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Old 09-07-2006, 11:22 AM   #1
miketech
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Lenovo/IBM z61t Video


I have been trying to get my z61t setup with FC5 or RHWS 4.0
The problem that I have run into is getting the Video to work. This laptop uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset and ThinkPad display capable of 1440x900 resolution.
during install the one error that I get is "Probing for Monitor type: Monitor Unknown" and the monitor will just go dark.

I can run through all the install in text mode which works but when I try to start X the same thing happens and I get a blank screen having to CTRL+ALT+Backspace to get back to the CLI.

At this point I have wiped the hard drive to start from scratch and thought it would be a good idea to post to the forum to see if anyone had run into this problem before.

Thanks
Mike
 
  


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