FC3 Graphical Boot and Install Problems - SOLVED!

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Dec 7 03:32:31 UTC 2004


Richard Duncan wrote:
> So this may sound odd, but my graphics are now working:
> 
> After trying the vesa, radeon, fglrx, and vga drivers, and recompiling a 
> custom 2.6.9 and 2.6.8 kernel as well as updating FC3 via yum, I could 
> only get a non-scrambled screen when using the vga driver in 8 bit 
> color.  Even then, though the system thought (in "Display" under System 
> Settings) it was in 1280x1024, all I saw was a "zoomed in" picture of 
> the upper right hand corner.  I kept trying to think what had changed 
> since I had last booted FC2 (been a while, unfortunately, as school gets 
> in the way of my linux messings), and only could think of two things: I 
> bought an ATi HDTV Wonder, which made no sense if it screwed things up; 
> and when Doom 3 came out, I played with my AGP Aperture settings.  As 
> little as I thought that would make a difference, after hunting through 
> my Xorg.0.log file and paying better attention on boot (those messages 
> flying by are hard to follow), I finally noticed that there were some 
> random memory allocation errors and PCI probe warnings regarding 
> PCI:01:00:0 (my AGP graphics card).  It said it "fixed" them, or they 
> were only warnings, but when I switched the AGP Aperture back down to 
> 64MB from 128MB, sure enough, all is now well...
> 

Thanks for the solution to your problem. The agp settings might help me 
out with a dual-head problem on one of the computers I have. I'll have 
to check the settings on that machine.

Jim


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