[PlanetCCRMA] Ima Newbie; can't get through install of FC4, nomatter what I do! Help!

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:48, Joe Fay wrote:
> Yes, it is a cyberblade (generic) Cyberblade /i11, Nigel, sounds like you
> know lots of things I don't, eh?  Fernando suggested unplugging the monitor
> at just the time of boot, I suppose, after selecting the boot you want.
> Text?

Hi Joe. I presume that you have got through the install. it took me 15+ goes 
at that, with various crashes along the way. Then just the white screen of 
death on reboot, where I expected to get the post config stuff. The problem 
at this stage is that FC4 is not able to enable the driver for Trident video 
cards. Don't ask me why, as FC1,2, and 3 had no problems.

Right. if this is your problem, here is the fix. I hope. Go to the following 
link.
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=59472&page=4&pp=15
7 posts down, a post by EclipseAgent.
Boot up FC4. Get Grubs menu, type e on the kernel to boot, type e again on the 
kernel, not the initrd.img. back space and get rid of rhgb quiet, and replace 
with init 3 . Next "Enter", then type b. This should now boot up in text 
mode. Then follow EclipseAgent's instructions for replacing the trident 
driver with the vesa one. Enough for now. If you have have tried numerous 
reboots, you have probably messed up the post install config stuff, so will 
have to create a user. It may be worthwhile creating a user before using vi 
to change the video card driver. Do the following .
adduser <username>
passwd <username>
enter password
enter password
If this works you should end up on rebooting with GDM asking for your user 
name and password. All the best. Nigel.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>
> To: <planetccrma@ccrma.stanford.edu>
> Cc: "Joe Fay" <wb0fhu@aol.com>; "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano"
> <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Ima Newbie; can't get through install of FC4,
> nomatter what I do! Help!
>
> > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:46, Joe Fay wrote:
> >> Hi Fernando (Espero que usted tiene un buen dia!)
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> >> To: <Wb0fhu@aol.com>
> >> Cc: <planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:22 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Ima Newbie; can't get through install of FC4,
> >> nomatter what I do! Help!
> >>
> >> > It would seem that there is a problem with your video hardware.
> >> > Did you try to install in text mode?
> >>
> >> Yes, I tried it with every argument I saw to run with it...still to no
> >> avail!
> >>
> >> > Once you boot into the first prompt (before it starts loading the
> >> > kernel
> >> > and all that) type:
> >> >  linux text
> >> > That will start the text based installer.
> >> >
> >> > documented here:
> >> > http://www.fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch-begin
> >> >nin ginstallation.html
> >> >
> >> > Just for reference some more options are documented here:
> >> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaIsoLinux0ptions
> >> >
> >> > What to try depends on exactly what messages (if any) get printed
> >> > before
> >> > things fail. I'm not sure of what is failing.
> >>
> >> Frankly, Fernando, I'm not sure, either.  I tried to use the Knoppix
> >> Live CD that comes with the distro from the book I mentioned, but that
> >> worked just fine, and found everything it needed to find.
> >>
> >> > Assuming there's something wrong with support for your video card I
> >> > would try:
> >> >
> >> > text* -- Enable text mode for install (default on HTTP and FTP
> >> >         installs). Mutually exclusive with graphical
> >> > skipddc* -- Skips DDC probe of the monitor
> >> > lowres* -- Force GUI installer to run at 640x480
> >>
> >> Tried those, too.  No luck! Same white screen of death.
> >>
> >> > -- Fernando
> >>
> >> Thanks, Fernando.  You have any other ideas to try?
> >> Joe Fay, WO0O
> >
> > Hi Joe. I've just had a load of problems with the white screen of death
> > after
> > install. Is your video card a Trident Cyberbladei1 or XP for instance?
> > Nigel.
> >
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