Re: fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #1069 - 32 msgs

[Paul Dubinsky <pdubinsky flxent com>]

At 01:45 AM 2/18/2004, you wrote:

> Subject: Re: S3 Prosavage PN133 Video issue during installation (Delia Leal)
> From: Alexandre Strube <surak casa surak eti br>
> To: Fedora-list <fedora-list redhat com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:31:43 -0300
> Reply-To: fedora-list redhat com
>
> Em Ter, 2004-02-17 ās 16:10, Paul Dubinsky escreveu:
>
> > > Fedora Core 1 recognizes that my Winsystems EBC motherboard has an
> > > integrated S3 Prosavage PN133 Video card during the hardware
> > > autodetect
> > > portion of installing Fedora, but it won't install Fedora in
> > > graphical
> > > mode.  I get a black screen.  CLT-ALT-F1 says that X-server started,
> > > but ..
> > > Does anyone know if the PN133 card is supported by Fedora?
> > e short answer: sort of. I (and many others) have had the same
> > problem. The solution to the problem, shown by Peter Barker of Florida
> > Atlantic University , is to add then following line:
> >         Option      "UseBIOS" "off"
>
> I think he was talking about installation...

He was but you could only make this change after installation and then you 
couldn't login to make the change.


> > It would nice if Fedora's installer asked which runlevel you wanted on
> > the first boot. That would really make things a lot easier. Earlier
> > RedHat distros had just that question: text or graphical login?
>
> typing "linux text" on boot cd doesnt to this?

No, it doesn't (that was my first attempt at getting around this problem) 
but maybe it should.  The install runs in text mode but the first boot runs 
in runlevel 5 graphical mode.

Paul
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