FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems

[Richard Duncan]

This is a double send to correct me forgetting to change the subject 
line on the last email...sorry about that.

On Dec 4, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Richard Duncan wrote:

> 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
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