[SWLUG] Installation question

[Peter (dsl)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas_adam at bonbon.net>
To: <discuss at swlug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SWLUG] Installation question


> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:20:38 +0100
> bascule <asura at theexcession.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > not necessarily thomas :)
>
> Ok, first thing:
>
> 1. Unless you have good reason to, it is advisable to keep these
> discussions on-list, so mailing me off-list is hardly going to solve
> that. Don't do it.
>
> 2. Top-posting is *extremely* annoying.
>
> > some monitors do complain when asked to do something they can't do,
> > in the past there used to be great warnings about not asking for too
> > high a resolution from a monitor in case it broke, modern monitors
> > avoid breaking by displaying such a message as peter describes, it
>
> Indeed.
>
> > does seem perhaps that for some reason the video mode that the install
> > tries to use is being objected to by the monitor, i assume that yast2
> > is a full on graphical installer?
>
> It is. Yast1 used to be (and probably still is) the text version. But
> let's be logical here. Since FB (Frame Buffers) are used during the
> install, and again, so is X11, regardless of what used to be in the
> past, this is more than likely an iffy video/modeline issue.
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>

Whose post are you replying to here?

I seem to have lost the thread - because all my posts are to the list and I
haven't posted any of the stuff you're replying to

Peter