<html> <body> At 01:49 PM 2/17/2004, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Message: 9 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:16:14 -0800 From: Delia Leal <delia.leal@sri.com> Subject: S3 Prosavage PN133 Video issue during installation To: fedora-list@redhat.com Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms090202000301070307010307 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fedora Core 1 recognizes that my Winsystems EBC motherboard has an integrated S3 Prosavage PN133 Video card during the hardware autodetect portion of installing Fedora, but it won't install Fedora in graphical mode. I get a black screen. CLT-ALT-F1 says that X-server started, but .. Does anyone know if the PN133 card is supported by Fedora? </blockquote> The short answer: sort of. I (and many others) have had the same problem. The solution to the problem, shown by Peter Barker of Florida Atlantic University , is to add then following line: Option "UseBIOS" "off" to the device section of the XF*^Config file in the /etc/X11 directory. As below: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "savage" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "S3 ProSavage KM133" Option "UseBIOS" "off" EndSection The problem, of course, is how to get to the /etc/X11 directory if you have a black screen and no command line. The solution is to put the box on a network and use OpenSSH to get to the command line. Login is as root, get to /etc and change inittab to have the default run level set to 3 not 5. You can also go to /etc/X11 and add the Option line to the XF86Config file. In either case, finish up with: shutdown -r now and you should be in business after the reboot. It would nice if Fedora's installer asked which runlevel you wanted on the first boot. That would really make things a lot easier. Earlier RedHat distros had just that question: text or graphical login? Any more questions, just ask. Regards, Paul <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes." <x-tab> </x-tab>J. William Fulbright , quoted in Time (New York, Feb. 4, 1952). </body> </html>