Mystery solved thanks to Andy Green who suggested I look in the BIOS. On my new EPIA, the BIOS under Advanced Chipset Features, Select Display Device, was set to: CRT+LCD. When I changed it to CRT (same as my working EPIA), Fedora 5 loaded using graphic display with no problem. Interestingly, the Suse and Novell were able to load successfully with the CRT+LCD setting. Sounds like a bug in Fedora? On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:45 -0400, WGregory wrote: > In January of this year, I installed Fedora 4 on a Via EPIA-ML. It has > been working like a champ. So good that I decided to purchase an > identical system (EPIA-ML motherboard and Morex case). > > However, each time I tried installing the same Fedora 4 disks on the new > system, the graphics would go bonkers. At first I thought it was the > motherboard, but when I installed Novell Linux Desktop 9, it installed > and ran fine. > > I then downloaded Fedora 5 and tried installing it. Same problem. When > it gets to the point that it invokes Xwindows, the screen disappears. > > When I used a text based install, it worked ok, but as soon as I logged > in and invoked startx, the screen went blank. Installed Suse 9.2 and it > works fine. > > What really confuses me is how well Fedora is working on the first > system. Any ideas? > > >
