[ltp] FC4 on 770z TP

[Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:56 -0700, M. Leo Cooper wrote:
> I decided to try to try a test install of FC4 on a 770z.

> The graphic install doesn't work -- freezes with "white screen."
> Text install worked, but . . .
> at next bootup got the "white screen of death" again.

Basically, X is hosed in the default install of FC4.  X is doubly hosed
if you're unfortunate enough to try installing it on a machine with a
Trident card (like the 770Z).  You can get into single user mode by
specifying "single" on the boot line, then you can type telinit 3 to get
into runlevel 3.  (There's a simpler way to do this, but it escapes me
at the moment.)  Once you get into a console, update x.org with yum and
things SHOULD work, at least if the changelog on the last x.org update
is saying what I think it does.

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