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At 01:49 PM 2/17/2004, you wrote:<br><br>
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:16:14 -0800<br>
From: Delia Leal <delia.leal@sri.com><br>
Subject: S3 Prosavage PN133 Video issue during installation<br>
To: fedora-list@redhat.com<br>
Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com<br><br>
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Fedora Core 1 recognizes that my Winsystems EBC motherboard has an <br>
integrated S3 Prosavage PN133 Video card during the hardware autodetect
<br>
portion of installing Fedora, but it won't install Fedora in graphical
<br>
mode. I get a black screen. CLT-ALT-F1 says that X-server
started, but ..<br><br>
Does anyone know if the PN133 card is supported by Fedora?<br>
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The short answer: sort of. I (and many others) have had the same problem.
The solution to the problem, shown by Peter Barker of Florida Atlantic
University , is to add then following line:<br><br>
Option "UseBIOS"
"off"<br><br>
to the device section of the XF*^Config file in the /etc/X11 directory.
As below:<br><br>
Section "Device"<br>
Identifier
"Videocard0"<br>
Driver "savage"<br>
VendorName
"Videocard vendor"<br>
BoardName "S3
ProSavage KM133"<br>
Option "UseBIOS"
"off"<br>
EndSection<br><br>
The problem, of course, is how to get to the /etc/X11 directory if you
have a black screen and no command line. The solution is to put the box
on a network and use OpenSSH to get to the command line. Login is as
root, get to /etc and change inittab to have the default run level set to
3 not 5. You can also go to /etc/X11 and add the Option line to the
XF86Config file. In either case, finish up with:<br><br>
shutdown -r now<br><br>
and you should be in business after the reboot.<br><br>
It would nice if Fedora's installer asked which runlevel you wanted on
the first boot. That would really make things a lot easier. Earlier
RedHat distros had just that question: text or graphical login?<br><br>
Any more questions, just ask.<br><br>
Regards,<br>
Paul<br><br>
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