Trouble Beginning The Installation; Is Your Mouse Not Detected; Problems With Booting Into The Graphical Installation - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR X86-ITANIUMTM-AMD64 AND INTEL EXTENDED MEMORY 64 TECHNOLO Installation Manual

Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
For more information concerning signal 11 errors, refer to:
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
C.2. Trouble Beginning the Installation
C.2.1. Is Your Mouse Not Detected?
If the Mouse Not Detected screen (refer to Figure C-1) appears, then the installation program was
not able to identify your mouse correctly.
You can choose to continue with the GUI installation or use the text mode installation, which does
not require using a mouse. If you choose to continue with the GUI installation, you must provide
the installation program with your mouse configuration information (refer to Section 4.14 Mouse
Configuration).
Figure C-1. Mouse Not Detected
C.2.2. Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation
There are some video cards that do not work properly with the installation program. The end result
being a problem booting into the graphical installation program.
If the installation program does not run using its default settings, it will try to run in a lower resolution
mode. If that still fails, the installation program attempts to run in text mode.
One possible solution is to try using the
for laptop users. Refer to Appendix F Additional Boot Options for more information.
Note
To disable frame buffer support and allow the installation program to run in text mode, try using
the boot option. This command may be necessary for accessibility with some screen reading
nofb
hardware.
boot option. This option may be most helpful
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