Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 21:22 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
wrote:
>> 1. Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p Core Duo 8500, Nvidia Geforce 9600gt - screen
>> goes dark at point
>> where one would normally be asked for language
>
> try with 'vesa' or 'xdriver=vesa'. Sounds like a bug in nouveau. Are
> multiple monitors connected to this system?
>
I added both, no effect. Tried stuff like that before.
The fact that this happens, as I reported, before any obvious attempt
to run X, suggests this particular problem is unrelated to X.
Can't think what else it can be, but I can't remember if the language
prompt is inside X or out of it, typically...anyone?
Skipping (or not skipping) the media check is in text mode.
Then anaconda runs (announcing its start in text mode) and starts X.
There's a do-nothing screen (Next).
Then there's the language selection screen.
Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Fn should work at that point. In particular, F2
should be handy.
There's always "nomodeset" to try, too. Nouveau KMS is one of the
objectives of F12 (isn't it?), but I don't know if it's been turned on yet.