From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: 1) Anaconda / XServer can't start a graphical installation of Fedora Core 1. Anaconda starts, detects the S3 ProSavage KM133 integrated chip, the monitor, mouse, starts XServer and the screen goes blank. My Flatron F700P monitor says that the frequencies are 23.8kHz horizontal and 38.0Hz vertical, wich won't work for this monitor (will this work for *any* monitor at all?). The system don't crash, as I can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and it will go back to text mode, unmount the CD and restart the machine. 2) Can't login after installing Fedora. The installation went ok using the text mode interface ("linux text"), but after that, when booting the installed Fedora from the HD, the video frequencies are 20.5kHz horizontal and 25.0Hz vertical (even though I set the correct range for my monitor during the installation). I can't login even switching to text mode (using Ctrl-Alt-F*) because there's no login prompt (just a blinking cursor at the top left corner of the screen). The system doesn't seem to be locked as the mouse cursor works in text mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. begin to install Fedora Core 1 in graphical mode Actual Results: I have a blank screen every time XServer starts Expected Results: A graphical user interface Additional info: The last lines of the text screen displayed with Alt-F1 are: Mounting Local Filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling Local Filesystems quotas: [ OK ] Enabling Swap Space: [ OK ]
I also have a ProSavage KM133. I had the same problem when installing Fedora Core 1. I know from experience that the savage driver doesn't work very well (for me anyway). To get around this problem I rebooted into the installation CD and did "linux rescue" to get into the rescue mode. I then edited my XF86Config file and changed the driver from savage to vesa. I then rebooted and everything is fine. Hope this helps.
I already solved my problem by installing a decent video card... :) But thank you for your comment! It may help other people in the same situation.
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.