Yes, it seems to be video hardware.  Everything is fine if I choose the basic video install instead of the standard install.



On 08/09/2011 12:14 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> On 2011-08-09, at 9:17 AM, Jos Vos wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 10:17:31AM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:
>>
>>> The installation screens during a 6.1 kickstart install have no words on
>>> them.  It's like it was not able to load a font table so the screens,
>>> dialogs, buttons, are all blank.
>>>
>>> The install works.  I'm not particularly bothered by it but thought you
>>> might want to know.
>>
>> I've done several SL 6.1 kickstart installs in the last week, but I
>> never saw anything wrong, all info was displayed as usual.
>>
>> Having said that, when installing with kickstart I don't have dialogs,
>> but buttons and other text I see during the install all look fine.
>>
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>
> This may be a long shot, but there may be something wrong with your video card. I've had garbled text on a terminal and it was due to my video card dying for some reason.
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