Green screen as if monitor is not accepted

[Jim Cornette]

Inge Vermonden wrote:

> where do you change the libvgahw.a file then? on the installation disks?
> I can not access my files on the Fedora drive, not through Windows, so 
> what is the best way to go? And if I have to change it, on what disk 
> is that?
> (I searched for it, but couldn't find the file at all... not even on 
> my working Fedora pc...
> thanks
> Inge


If you copy the file to a vfat partition and then change file 
permissions to 444 with root as owner and group, it should work as well.

I copied the file from the website, saved it to disk, then accessed the 
floppy in Linux. I then moved the file to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/

rename /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a.old
cp /media/floppy/libvgahw.a  /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chmod 444 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
chown root:root /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a

ought to do the trick. After that, the X server ought to come up 
normally, if the problem is the same as others are getting w/ libvgahw.a 
is the same cause.

Jim

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