Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fedora Core 10 on Lenovo W500

1. Installation from CD cannot start the GUI display
2. At terminal, run: X -configure.
3. You got a black screen and cannot do anything. Wait for 1 minute and restarting the computer
4. The "X -configure" gives you xorg.config.net.
5. Find somthing like below within xorg.config.net and change that "radeon" to "radeonhd"

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

6. Copy xorg.config.net to /etc/X11/xorg.config
7. startx

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