I just switched to FC1 on my main workstation yesterday, and so far so good. Kudos to the developers - keep up the great work!
The only problem I ran across was with my dual-headed Matrox G-450 video card. Symptoms were very inconsistent. Upon initial power-on with the first CD, when trying to launch X for the graphical install - the box locked hard. Okay, I'll just install using text mode - I got all the way through the install, then upon firstboot, X wouldn't start. The box didn't lock, but I couldn't do anything since by default, init 5 is spawned. I'll give this one more shot - I rebooted with the install CD, this time X worked - at least for the install, but again during firstboot it wouldn't. At this point, I decided that it was a driver issue and pulled the card. I installed my ATI Radeon 9000 - graphical install works, X starts during firstboot, no problems whatsoever. Just wanted to pass along the problem that I had. Right now I'm just using the one monitor, but I'll be testing out a second vidcard later today - I'll keep everyone posted.
Thanks, Mike
mike webster wrote:
The only problem I ran across was with my dual-headed Matrox G-450 video card. Symptoms were very inconsistent. Upon initial power-on with the first CD, when trying to launch X for the graphical install - the box locked hard. Okay, I'll just install using text mode - I got all the way through the install, then upon firstboot, X wouldn't start. The box
For what it's worth, I too have a dual-headed G450 but I was able to install and boot at runlevel 5 with no problems. No problems, except that my fonts are screwed up somehow. I haven't had time to investigate the problem, but it might have something to do with me using Matrox's X drivers instead of the default.
Peter
Peter, thanks for the reply.
I now have xinerama working. I ended up using two cards instead of a single dual-head. Of course I needed to modify the /etc/X11/XF86Config. For reference, the AGP card is a GeForce2 MX 100, and the PCI is an ATI Radeon 7500.
Mike.
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:11, Peter Eddy wrote:
mike webster wrote:
The only problem I ran across was with my dual-headed Matrox G-450 video card. Symptoms were very inconsistent. Upon initial power-on with the first CD, when trying to launch X for the graphical install - the box locked hard. Okay, I'll just install using text mode - I got all the way through the install, then upon firstboot, X wouldn't start. The box
For what it's worth, I too have a dual-headed G450 but I was able to install and boot at runlevel 5 with no problems. No problems, except that my fonts are screwed up somehow. I haven't had time to investigate the problem, but it might have something to do with me using Matrox's X drivers instead of the default.
Peter
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