FC4 install disks - Bad X with some videocards

[Jim Cornette]

Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I just had a bizaare experience with FC4 install disks on a venerable 
> desktop machine with G450 video card, and an old Radius PrecisionColor 
> Display/17.  The disks didn't detect the monitor, but did detect the 
> card.  Two monitors, another one, a noname 17".  Both monitors acted 
> flakey: they were as if coated w/ jello, and the mouse messed up the 
> jello.
>
> The same disks worked ok on a gateway laptop on which I burned these 
> disks.
>
> Alan Davis
>
There was a problem with X on the install discs. If you install in text 
mode, then boot into runlevel 1, then start the network, then run yum, 
you should have a good first boot once you reboot your computer after 
yum completes the update.
# linux text
Press any key once update completed and computer reboots. Press A to 
append the kernel. Backspace out the rhgb quiet. Press the spacebar 
followed by a 1 or the word single, then press enter.
# service start network
# yum -y update
# reboot

You might also consider reading the list archives regarding updated 
discs available that a user created and dubbed Fedora 4.1. Another 
alternative is to replace the libvgahw.a file which is probably 
crippling X on that particular machine.

Jim

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