FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems

[Randy]

At 11:03 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:
>Well finally after getting it to boot in runlevel 3 I was able to
>modify inittab to always do that.  I've narrowed the problem down to
>the radeon kernel driver.  If I go into xorg.conf and change the driver
>to vga, I can get X to start properly and display things mostly right,
>but with oddity: it only works in 8-bit color mode (since that's
>apparently all vga supports), and no matter resolution I set it to, I
>get this 640x480 screen "zoomed" in on the upper left hand corner of
>the screen (i.e., only showing the upper left quarter of the desktop).
>Its odd that the kernel radeon driver won't work, since it did for me
>in FC2.
>
>New problem.  Any new ideas anyone?

Try the VESA driver?  I had to change mine also.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"

Section "Screen"
#       Driver      "via"
#       BoardName   "S3 UniChrome"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "vesa"
         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
         BoardName   "VESA driver (generic)"
EndSection