Description of problem: In contrary to former Red Hat Linux version, I experienced some troubles during installation of RHL 9 on my notebook: 1) X display during install scrambled. My notebooks panel was not recognised (is 15" 1400x1050 display). Video Card was recognised properly (ATI Rage Mobility with 8MB RAM). Screen had only correct display in small strip (50-100 pixel?) on the left side of the screen. The rest had a solid color, first blue, then gray. Color has a relation to what is displayed on the screen. I retried this 2 times with the same result. 2) Keyboard freeze during install. During install (in text mode because of 1) ), a few times the keyboard froze. Even the caps lock LED didn't react. Closing and opening the lid (causing a standby-in-RAM) did unlock the keyboard. Noteable pressing shift-Fx to (try to) switch VC made the problem worse. I did retry this a few times, with varying results. Note: I verified the installing media. Everything fine. I did a clean install on a computer with newly created partitions (fdisk-ed). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): (n/a) How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find Dell Inspiron 5000 (P-III, 600MHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB disk) 2. Put RHL 9 cdrom 1 in it and let it boot from it. 3. Just accept default everywhere -> problem 1) 4. Restart and now run "linux text". 5. Select all packages to install. 6. Press shift-Fx a few times 7. Note that pressing enter when a new cdrom is requested fails. Actual results: See problem description. Unable to install in graphics mode. Text mode could only be completed because of close-lid trick. Expected results: A problemless install like with RHL 7.x and 8.0. Additional info: No problem to test some stuff. Small dl's appreciated!
Could you try booting into the graphical installer by adding 'resolution=1400x1050' to your boot command line (assuming 1400x1050 is the LCD native resolution).
Did add the resolution=1400x1050 and this was in the log: * adding extraArg --resolution=1400x1050 * ddcprobe returned bogus values ID: None Name: None HorizSync: None VertSync: None Screen full gray without mouse pointer, while at first the mouse pointer was visable in the small strip on the left. So we are further from home now :-) I tried ddcprobe on the running system. It worked a few times tonight, but now (a few hours later), not anymore??? Very strange. I tried it as root in runlevel 3 and 5...
I do not have this hardware to test with. Sounds like most X server related issues.
Don't have hardware anymore, so will not be able to try something anymore.