FC4 White screen on install ?

[mswoon]

Originally Posted by Zak

Thanks for the information, but I don't think updating ATI-Drivers will help me, because I also have a Trident-Chip in my notebook.

I hope to get a fixed boot-iso soon.


Zak

My sentiments too.

[blue13130]

Originally Posted by delaosa

this works for me:

-install in text mode
-once installed, restart, at boot enter grub configuation and append the folowing commands to the kernel line: vga=791 3
-boot
-/boot/grub/grub.conf must be changed to start always with framebuffer enabled

grub.conf

.....

title Fedora Core (2.6.11.8)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb vga=791 3
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11.8.img

.....

-edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and select as video driver fbdev

xorg.conf

.....

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "fbdev"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "Trident CyberBladeXp"
.....

-now run X and check if works.

That worked perfectly for me. I was seeing the "White Screen" when I did a graphical install, so I did a text install. When I tried to startx from run level 3, the "White Screen" would always reappear. Changing the driver to "fbdev" solved that and I am now using gnome and booting into run level 5 with no problems.

Thanks delaosa, I was about ready to reinstall FC3 but now I can use FC4!!!!

here is the output of lspci if anyone is interested in my graphics info
I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800

00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1632M Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 5d)

[LinuxUsr67]

I have a cyberblade i7 http://www.tridentmicro.com/videogra...yberblade%20i7 I too get the white screen of death. Has there been any developments? I tried "fbdev" but that did not work.

[antimatter]

thank you so much, delosa!

[LinuxUsr67]

Is there anybody working on this bug? I had no problems with Fedora Core 2 or 3 on this laptop.

[caddr]

Well, for me, the roll back to the last FC3 xorg-x11 6.8.2-1* worked for me.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...C3.13.i386.rpm

just need to download the rpms you need. Then do a rpm --oldpackage -Uvh xorg-x11* in the location where you downloaded them.

This worked for an hp laptopwith a Trident CyberBladeXP graphics.

[LinuxUsr67]

Downgrading seemed to do the trick.

[abhiksarkar]

Thanks Delaosa! The fbdev setup works on my Toshiba Tecra M1! Now I can experience the new Gnome and KDE!

[craiger317]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU DELAOSA!!!!!

I have a built-in trident card on my Via EPIA mini-itx board. The thing is, I was going to just quit because I was having major problems installing FC3 a ways back. Basically, FC3 was not EPIA friendly at all. Then, I go to install FC4, praying that the problems have been solved, only to find it is having problems with my IDE DMA controller, uhhhhg. So, then I try FTP install, and that works, only to run into this problem that you solved!

I am up and running now, whooo hooo!

Thanks again!

craiger

[Stranger]

the link of RedHat's thread is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzill...g.cgi?id=161242
and the link to the file is ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a

(note, I actualy used Knoppix to fix FC4 )

so baiscly overwrite the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a with the above file, and you are done

note, to get to run for me, I had to do a text installation, then replace the above file *AFTER* installing.

P.S. I beleave that the rescue option in the FC4 DVD (built in) and the extra rescue disk for the CD installition will help you do the above

[CrystalCowboy]

Wouldn't it make sense for the installation to assign the default boot mode as level 3 if the installation is done in text mode?

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by CrystalCowboy

Wouldn't it make sense for the installation to assign the default boot mode as level 3 if the installation is done in text mode?

Yes definitely. If it doesnt work that way kindly file a bug report against anaconda in bugzilla.redhat.com

Rahul
Red Hat Inc

[Stranger]

even if you set it to '3' it will still try to load the setup screen in X mode.

I tryed to set 'inittab' to 3 using knoppix but still, I got the white screen of death

[vii]

It also did not work for me. But I set:

Section "Device"
......
Driver "vesa"
.......

and it works 800x600 16 bit.

I think driver for Trident card is too old. Does anybody know how to update it?

[pdjc]

Hi All,
I am having the same problem on a Toshiba Portege R100 Laptop. I have it succesfully dual-booting XP and FC4 but only after I resorted to text mode installation for linux. If I boot linux in run mode 4 I have full text prompt access but if I try to boot in graphics mode I see the X windows 'X cursor' for a fraction of a second and then a white rectangle in the middle of the screen.

The laptop uses the Trident XP4m32 graphics chipset

I don't know if the problem is my graphics chipset driver, libvgahw file or the xorg.conf settings

I am a not-totally-newbie linux user hoping to expand my use of linux from file servers to the desktop environment so any help getting me up and running would be really appreciated.

For reference, should I report this installation issue as a bug? If so, how do I do that?

regards

pdjc