On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:05, Dwaine Castle wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I installed FC2-test3 last night -- the complete package. > > Motherboard: Supermicro P4STA > CPU: 1.7GHz > Memory: 768 MB > Hard drive: WD 80GB > CD: HP9900i > Monitor: Sony CPD200SF > Video card: ATI 8500 /64MB > > I had a lot of difficulty with disc2. I downloaded copies from 3 > different sites and burned each copy to a CD. Md5sums all > checked out and the Fedora media check also passed each CD. > However, the installation failed on disc2 every time complaining > about a missing file. I got around this problem by switching > disc2 CDs until one finally worked. > > I installed all the available patches via up2date. > > Everything appears to be working with one exception. My video > card was miss-identified as an ATI8500LE and this allows me a > maximum screen resolution of 800x600. I've tried to change it, > but it goes back to 8500LE. I've downloaded the latest drivers > from ATI, but they appeared to be designed only for XFree86 and > it doesn't look like FC2 is using XFree86. I remember reading > something about Fedora no longer using XFree86 during the > installation but I was more interested in my installation > failures. I doubt that I should install the ATI RPM. This seems > like a hardware configuration issue, but I know that the X server > is related. > > I would like to get my graphics card installed correctly. Can > anyone explain what is going wrong? You're on the wrong list. These issues been discussed extensively on test-list. Search/post to fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx and check Bugzilla. Short/direct answer - ATI needs to fix their drivers. Until then, should be possible to get xorg support going without ATI-proprietary acceleration. Phil
