Description of problem: Tried to install Fedora Core 3 64 Bit and Fedora Core 4 RC3 64 bit on one of my Athlon 64Bit PC. This PC has K8 Triton GA-K8VM800M Mother board. During Installation, Just after Media test, it is unable to detect the correct Display card & Monitor & Hangs. So I am unable to complete the installation. In the same machine I installed Fedora Core3 32 Bit Version, It was able to load X but could not detect the correct Display Adaptor type. It has onboard VGA VIA K8M800 Chipset. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This video hardware is not supported in x86_64 at this time. You must perform a text mode installation, and manually configure it to use the "vesa" driver after install. The reason for this is that the database that maps video hardware to a particular driver is shared between all architectures, and does not have a way to override what driver gets used on a specific architecture. This means we must map a video card to one single driver, and that gets used on all architectures even if the driver does not exist on them. Our primary architecture is x86, so the default driver mappings are all x86 specific. In order to fix this, requires complete reworking of how video hardware to driver mappings are done, which is a long term level feature enhancement which will likely be available in a future release of Fedora Core. For the time being, this problem is not trivially fixable on your hardware until X.Org officially supports this via chip on x86_64. If you'd like to track this problem in X.Org, the upstream bug report is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1973