FC3 and Matrox G100

[Jim Cornette]

Mírian Bruckschen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A friend of mine is having some problems installing FC3. He has a
> Matrox G100 video board. During the instalation, his hardware is
> correctly detected, but when the graphic instalation mode is
> initialized, it crashes.
> 
> The tmp/X.log file says:
> 
> ``...
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-1.667
> (bhcompile at tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red
> Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:31 EST 2004
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (++) Log file: "/tmp/ramfs/X.log", Time: Mon Apr  4 23:14:57 2005
> (++) Using config file: "/tmp/XConfig.test"
> (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) Failed to load module "record" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) MGA(0): [drm] Direct rendering only supported with G200/G400/G550 AGP
> error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!''
> 
> We've checked <http://wiki.x.org/wiki/VideoDrivers> to confirm the
> support for this board, and there it is. Researching through Google we
> found some people telling it works on this or that distribution, but
> we couldn't get it to work on FC3.
> 
> Has anybody here experienced this? Does anybody know the solution? :)
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for the attention,
> 

Have you tried to install this in text mode? I am getting that this 
failure is happening when you are trying to install the system via the 
GUI installer.

linux text
at the first installer prompt screen.

Jim