A friend of mine have an averatec 3200 series laptop. He couldnt get the installation to work because his lcd went black when he pressed enter to install fedora. The probelm is that the VIA/S3G adapter is not supported during the installation. The problem can be solved by doing a text mode installation and when everything has been done and the computer is rebooting go into a single user shell by first pressing the down arrow key on the grub initial screen and when the OS choice menu screen appears press 'a' to modify kernel arguments. youll end up on the grub append> prompt with a ro root=/dev... line written. Add "single" without quotes after a space at the end of the line and press enter youll end up on a shell prompt the is a single user screen which you usually use when you have some grave unsolvable problems with the normal startup and gui. now write
vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf the vi editor opens up the xorg.conf file present in the /etc/X11 directory. this directory is for the X Server program which handles the gui affairs and xorg.conf is as you might already have guessed the configuration file for the X server. in this file look for the line which says Driver "via" press insert on your keboard and change that line to Driver "vesa" now find the related sections and add/edit as follows:
Section "Monitor"
ModelName "Generic LCD"
HorizSync 31.5-60.5
VertRefresh 28-70
EndSection
Section "Screen"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x320"
EndSubSection
#(some other lines may already be existing here dont add this line)
EndSection
press esc then enter :wq to save the file and exit.
you should now be able to boot.
If you somehow end up at the shell:
vim /etc/inittab
go to the line which says:
id: (some number ) :initdefault:
press insert on your keyboard and change the number to 5
press esc then enter :wq to save the file and exit.
this is how i did it. Hope this helps someone...
(Thanks to Eric for his blog that helped me to help a friend installing fedora on his laptop
http://ericji.blogspot.com/)
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