At 01:45 AM 2/18/2004, you wrote:
Subject: Re: S3 Prosavage PN133 Video issue during installation (Delia Leal) From: Alexandre Strube <surak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Fedora-list <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:31:43 -0300 Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Em Ter, 2004-02-17 �s 16:10, Paul Dubinsky escreveu:
> > 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? > e 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"
I think he was talking about installation...
He was but you could only make this change after installation and then you couldn't login to make the change.
> 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?
typing "linux text" on boot cd doesnt to this?
No, it doesn't (that was my first attempt at getting around this problem) but maybe it should. The install runs in text mode but the first boot runs in runlevel 5 graphical mode.
Paul
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