Fedora 18 with ATI Mach64?

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/18/13 14:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Trying to install Fedora 18 on an older motherboard that has video 
> built-in using an ATI Mach64.  
>
> Install seemed to go thru fine, and login screen is fine, but then 
> after logging in I got the top bar and side ICONs seem to work 
> fine, but if background image seems to be half width, and 
> magenta. Can bring up system settings, and then display, but 
> have to use keys since the mouse position isn't matching. Screen 
> is showing as LAPTOP, and it originally shows a 2000+ x 1024 
> screen, but then options only showed 1024x768 and 800x400. 
> Selecting either and applying gives the box if image is ok, but it is 
> diagonal?
>
> Found that the xorg driver for mach64 was not installed, so 
> installed it. No difference.
>
> Ran Xorg -configure, which I had tried earlier, but it only came up 
> with a 640x480 screen. This time, the little round icon comes up in 
> the lower right corner a few times, and then machine completely 
> locks and requires a hard power off.
>
> Motherboard doesn't have agp slots, so putting a different video 
> card isn't really an option. Have tried using vnc to connect, but it is 
> just coming up with an OPPS screen.
>
>

Older video cards may not play well with GNOME 3.

Have you tried running a different desktop such as KDE or Xfce?

As for VNC, it too doesn't work well (very little testing on my part) so I just use a very simple xstartup.

#!/bin/sh

#xrdb $HOME/.Xresources #I have no .Xresources file
xsetroot -solid grey
exec startkde

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