Simon Tierney wrote: > I have installed onto an opteron system with an old matrox millenium card > but when first time boot started it requested me to click on an area of > the screen (bottom right) which was not displayed, and when I mooved the > mouse toward it, the system froze. > > So I swapped in a 3Dlabs Oxygen card in case the Matrox was underpowered, > but now it cannot start X and hangs with a little orange icon at the top > left corner of a blank screen! > > I tried to re-install but had the same problem again, the DVD ISO passed > the test. > > The motherboard (Tyan Thunder) has PCI-Express slots, can anyone suggest a > solution or recommend a PCI-Express video card or chipset compatible to > Fedora &? Did you try running in text mode? (Answer "linux text" at the boot prompt.) If I had your problem I'd run in text mode and try to sort out the xorg settings from there. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
