Installation guide

have been freed, but were not. T he number of blocks needing to be freed will vary depending on the
size of the file system and block size. Many file systems will not encounter this issue at all. Large file
systems may have a small number of blocks (typically less than 100).
9.2. x86 Architectures
When running the bare-metal (non-Virtualized) kernel, the X server may not be able to retrieve EDID
information from the monitor. When this occurs, the graphics driver will be unable to display
resolutions highers than 800x600.
To work around this, add the following line to the ServerLayout section of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "Int10Backend" "x86emu"
Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the
following steps:
1. Open alsam ixer.
2. Press T ab to toggle [Capture] in the View field (located at the upper left part of the menu).
3. Press the Space bar.
4. To verify that recording is enabled, the text above the ADCMux field should display L R
CAPT UR.
If encryption is enabled on the boot device during system installation, the following message will be
logged during system boot:
padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
This message can safely be ignored.
9.3. x86_64 Architectures
Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted graphics or fonts when using
the graphical installer or during a graphical login. T o work around this, switch to a virtual console and
back to the original X host.
On an IBM T61 laptop, Red Hat recommends that you refrain from clicking the glxgears window
(when glxgears is run). Doing so can lock the system.
To prevent this from occurring, disable the tiling feature. T o do so, add the following line in the
Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "Tiling" "0"
Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the
following steps:
1. Open alsam ixer.
2. Press T ab to toggle [Capture] in the View field (located at the upper left part of the menu).
3. Press the Space bar.
4. To verify that recording is enabled, the text above the ADCMux field should display L R
CAPT UR.
If your system uses an Intel 945GM graphics card, do not use the i810 driver. You should use the
default intel driver instead.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Release Notes
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