Re: FC4 installation doesn't work

Juan wrote:

Hi.
I bought the CDs from Linux central and they tested OK.
I have FC3 installed in this box and its installation was a breeze.

Now when trying to install/upgrade to FC4 I go through the Anaconda process till the moment it should begin to ask for the language. At this point the screen turns totally white so I can't keep installing. Is there a way to overcome this? Has someone had this kind of problem and solved it?

Thanks in advance

Juan

   Check this out, sounds like what you have:

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 21:29 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:

AdabalaP@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I tried to performed a graphical install but got a "white screen",
> > So switched to test based install, Installation went fine. Now i
> > get the same "white screen" when i rebooted. Has any one seen this
> > issue ?
> >
> > Details: Model - Compaq Presario, Video Card - Cyber Blade

>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160580

This person has.

What might be helpful is to try to replace the file described in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157556
regarding replacing /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
with a version from extracting it from the latest FC3 version of xorg-x11.

Good luck!

What this will provide is confirmation that this file is wreaking havoc on a slew of different video cards. If it works, you will have more than a white screen for your GUI. Including binary hacks with released binaries are not sent out with the binary rpms. sometimes the hack is desirable compared to the alternatives though. Rename the FC4 version before you do this replacement. You might need to restart the computer, change runlevel or restart the x server in some other way for the change to take effect.

I like to use mc (midnight commander) to dive into rpms to extract files from it. There are probably other utilities to extract the file, but just a suggested program.

Jim

The white screen seems to be a problem with Trident CyberBlade
video cards, which I have, so I couldn't get the GUI install to work at
all. I installed FC4 alongside FC3, on a separate partition, using the
text install. Then I could try the trick of substituting files, without

	/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
and	/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
I did this by mounting the FC4 partition in FC3 so I could just copy the
files across from FC3 to FC4 directories. In short, it worked and FC4
looks very nice.

I'll put a report into bugzilla soon but I want to try just changing one
file at a time.