Hello,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">&gt; * last, i tried running the Live CD for x86_64 of fedora 9. i had a<br>

&gt; weird experience - fedora loaded, but no text appeared. instead it was<br>
&gt; all black empty spots (&quot;null&quot; font). should i be worried about that<br>
&gt; when coming to install fedora in fully?<br>
<br>
</div>Maybe a problem with your video chipset, but you don&#39;t identify the<br>
laptop so it&#39;s hard to say. It&#39;s probably fixable though.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>My laptop is a Thinkpad x61 tablet from Lenovo... Maybe I should find a way to configure the video card from the live cd, the thing is - I cannot do that because I have no idea what&#39;s going on the screen as far as text goes.<br>
By-the-way, I ran Fedora 9 live cd on a thinkpad t42 (same cd), and everything went well as far as video goes.<br>&nbsp;</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
&gt; * i read somewhere that someone installed fedora 64bit on a laptop<br>
&gt; x61t like mine, and complained that everything was incredibly slow.<br>
&gt; once he re-installed the 32bit version, it became much better. i would<br>
&gt; like to use a 64bit version still... should i be worried about having<br>
&gt; the same behavior?<br>
<br>
</div>Same Fedora version? Same amount of RAM? I&#39;m surprised but go with<br>
32-bit if you&#39;re nervous about it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>No, I think I will try the 64bit version... and if it has the same behavior, I will just change it to 32bit.<br><br>Thanks for your quick response.<br><br>jerr. <br></div></div>