Message: 9
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:16:14 -0800
From: Delia Leal <delia.leal@xxxxxxx>
Subject: S3 Prosavage PN133 Video issue during installation
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Fedora Core 1 recognizes that my Winsystems EBC motherboard has an
integrated S3 Prosavage PN133 Video card during the hardware autodetect
portion of installing Fedora, but it won't install Fedora in graphical
mode. I get a black screen. CLT-ALT-F1 says that X-server started, but ..
Does anyone know if the PN133 card is supported by Fedora?
The short answer: sort of. I (and many others) have had the same problem. The solution to the problem, shown by Peter Barker of Florida Atlantic University , is to add then following line:
Option "UseBIOS" "off"
to the device section of the XF*^Config file in the /etc/X11 directory. As below:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "savage"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "S3 ProSavage KM133"
Option "UseBIOS" "off"
EndSection
The problem, of course, is how to get to the /etc/X11 directory if you have a black screen and no command line. The solution is to put the box on a network and use OpenSSH to get to the command line. Login is as root, get to /etc and change inittab to have the default run level set to 3 not 5. You can also go to /etc/X11 and add the Option line to the XF86Config file. In either case, finish up with:
shutdown -r now
and you should be in business after the reboot.
It would nice if Fedora's installer asked which runlevel you wanted on the first boot. That would really make things a lot easier. Earlier RedHat distros had just that question: text or graphical login?
Any more questions, just ask.
Regards,
Paul
and we seem to do it about every ten minutes."
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