[ltp] FC4 on 770z TP (fixed)

[M. Leo Cooper]

> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV wrote:
>
> > 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.

Fixed!

What I did was the following.

1) Copy over /etc/X11/xorg.conf from a working FC3 installation.

2) Revert to xorg-X11-6.8.1
   From FC3 disk 1: xorg-X11-libs
   From FC3 disk 1: xorg-X11-xfs
   From FC3 disk 2: xorg-X11-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
      rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps ...


And, I even got sound working now -- same tweaks as for FC3.