fedora-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 67

[Richard Duncan]

Tried changing driver to "vesa", same result.  I get a very scrambled 
screen (I can barely make out the "Fedora Core" logo a couple times 
across the middle of the screen) at all color modes and resolutions.  I 
also tried getting the proprietary ATI drivers on a flash drive and 
rpm'ing them in, just to see if even in 2-D the fglrx driver would 
work, but same result once again.  Would changing the VendorName and 
BoardName have an effect, or are those just to make the configuration 
keep track of what kind of board you're using so you can access that 
info later?

I had trouble back in RH9 getting the DVI output on my old nVidia card 
working right, but haven't had any trouble since until I tried 
upgrading to FC3.  Could it be the new xorg not liking my setup?  The 
Xorg setup that went in FC2 didn't give me any trouble though.


> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:22:53 -0600
> From: Randy <toucan at tropicalrain.us>
> Subject: Re: FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20041204072137.01d5da90 at 192.168.0.2>
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> 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