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Hi,<br>
I've running Fedora 12 on a NetCom-772 single board computer. It
has an Intel Atom N270 cpu and uses Intel's 945GSE chipset for video
and everything else. It's connected to a 1280x1024 VGA display. (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.netcomipc.com.tw/catalog/images/NC-772-1.pdf">http://www.netcomipc.com.tw/catalog/images/NC-772-1.pdf</a> If you want
to see more details about the cpu board.)<br>
<br>
Ever since the 2.6.32 kernel came out I've had nothing but trouble
with video display. In some rev's it will work at 1024x768. Using
Fedora 12's latest kernel 2.6.32.16-141 it won't boot in graphical
mode at all. It gets part way through the boot and then the monitor
starts blinking and the monitor's controller complains about no
signal. It's not pretty. I've had some other weird video problems
as various kernel's have been pushed out.<br>
<br>
When I've looked at /var/logs/messages, I don't see anything there
that looks like a failure notice during the boot.<br>
<br>
When Unbuntu 10.4 came out I tried running that on this board; but,
it too can't seem to get graphical mode. Ubuntu 10.4 uses 2.6.32
kernel so that doesn't work for what I believe is the same reason.<br>
<br>
The only way I've found to recover my mess is to manually edit
/etc/grub ->../boot/grub/grub.conf and move the kernel 2.6.31
kernel option to the top of the boot choices.<br>
<ol>
<li>Where can I go to figure out what might have changed in the
kernel that has crippled my video display modes?</li>
<li>Is there utility that I can use to shuffle kernel boot choices
beside using vi?</li>
<li>Is there a distribution out there that uses the 2.6.33 or
2.6.34 kernel or some way to load the latest kernel on Fedora
without having to download source and build it?</li>
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--<br>
Timothy.<br>
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