Fedora Users — Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 10, Issue 67

Tried changing driver to "vesa", same result. I get a very scrambled screen (I can barely make out the "Fedora Core" logo a couple times across the middle of the screen) at all color modes and resolutions. I also tried getting the proprietary ATI drivers on a flash drive and rpm'ing them in, just to see if even in 2-D the fglrx driver would work, but same result once again. Would changing the VendorName and BoardName have an effect, or are those just to make the configuration keep track of what kind of board you're using so you can access that info later?

I had trouble back in RH9 getting the DVI output on my old nVidia card working right, but haven't had any trouble since until I tried upgrading to FC3. Could it be the new xorg not liking my setup? The Xorg setup that went in FC2 didn't give me any trouble though.

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 07:22:53 -0600
From: Randy <toucan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems
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At 11:03 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:
Well finally after getting it to boot in runlevel 3 I was able to modify inittab to always do that. I've narrowed the problem down to the radeon kernel driver. If I go into xorg.conf and change the driver to vga, I can get X to start properly and display things mostly right, but with oddity: it only works in 8-bit color mode (since that's apparently all vga supports), and no matter resolution I set it to, I get this 640x480 screen "zoomed" in on the upper left hand corner of the screen (i.e., only showing the upper left quarter of the desktop). Its odd that the kernel radeon driver won't work, since it did for me in FC2.

New problem. Any new ideas anyone?
Try the VESA driver?  I had to change mine also.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Section "Screen"
#       Driver      "via"
#       BoardName   "S3 UniChrome"
         Identifier  "Videocard0"
         Driver      "vesa"
         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
         BoardName   "VESA driver (generic)"
EndSection