How interesting, on the fully working system, the driver does indeed set to "vesa". Why it didn't get pick up in the first installation puzzles me. Thanks a lot. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gregory Woodbury Sent: 17 November 2003 13:29 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fedora Release 1 - console display problem On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:53:44AM -0000, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Having mounted Fedora on an AMD Athlon system with integrated S3 > graphics, I came across a problem in using the newly installed system > on the console in graphics mode. Right click on the screen gives a > rectangular block with some dots instead of texts showing > the options. Still if I select the second dot, it fires up a terminal > session on the screen. > > I tried using redhat-config-xfree86 but the display also exhibits > similar problems, ie. the tabs and options are shown as dots, making > selection rather difficult. > > I reinstalled Fedora on the same box, but selected "everything" to the > package selection prompt. Now, the system is behaving properly, with > all the display options showing as they should be. > > Any idea what could be missing? > > Peter There isn't anything missing. I had a similar problem with an S3 install. The solution for me was to change the S3 driver in XF86config to "vesa" and it's been working ever since. -- Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U RHCT August 2003 "The Line Eater is a boojum snark." Hug your wolf. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
