FC installation doesn't work

[Jim Cornette]

Edward Dekkers wrote:

> Juan wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much for your answers gentlemen.
>> The problem was solved changing the video card.
>> Scott's e-mail arrived just a tad late when I had already formatted 
>> the hd. I believe that that is the answer. The video card I had was a 
>> Trident.
>> Thanks again.
>>  
>> Juan
>>
>
> Just to chime in here. I had that problem with the Trident myself. In 
> my case, the unit being a notebook, I did not have the luxury of 
> swapping it out.
>
> I've had it running in vesa mode for while now (even that had it's 
> problems initially I won't go in to), but always would have preferred 
> it running with it's native driver.
>
> At the time no-one seemed to have the answer apart from the fact I was 
> told "It should work".
>
> After reading this thread, downloading the old vgahw.a to replace my 
> FC4  one, and changing the driver from vesa to trident again in my 
> xorg.conf, it worked first go!!!
>
> Man, it pays to be on this list!!!
>
> Is it worth lodging this bug somewhere? It is a pain in the backside 
> if you don't know the fix...
>
> Regards,
> Ed.

There is help on the way for getting X up and running without needing to 
replace binary components. In the below link are rpms compiled with 
later gcc versions which need testing to see if it clears all the 
problems that happened when FC4 was released. The fix with replacing the 
file works fine now if you would rather wait for an update to FC4 to 
come out.

http://people.redhat.com/krh/xorg-x11-6.8.2-45/i386/

This list is very helpful to get things up and running. Some of the 
items discussed help out when problems arise down the road.

Jim

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