Fresh FC4 install issues

[James Bridge]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:13 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> James Bridge wrote:
> 
> >>are probably other utilities to extract the file, but 
> >>just a suggested program.
> >>
> >>Jim
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The white screen seems to be a problem with Trident CyberBlade
> >videocards, which I have, so I couldn't get the GUI install to work at
> >all. I installed FC4 alongside FC3, on a separate partition, using the
> >text install. Then I could try the trick of substituting files, without
> >risking loss of a working FC3. 
> >The bugzilla report mentioned above suggests two changes:
> >	/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> >and	/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
> >I did this by mounting the FC4 partition in FC3 so I could just copy the
> >files across from FC3 to FC4 directories. In short, it worked and FC4
> >looks very nice.
> >
> >I'll put a report into bugzilla soon but I want to try just changing one
> >file at a time.
> >  
> >
> 
> I'm glad that it worked for you to replace the files.
> I copied the libvgahw.a file over from a system that had FC3 installed 
> in much the same way that you described.
> The mga_drv.o was probably not needed, since you are not using an mga 
> card. I doubt it hurt anything though.

Hi Jim - you were right, the mga driver makes no difference. But
changing the FC3 libvgahw.a file for the FC4 version causes a blank
white screen and corrupts the display in the text consoles.
-- 
James Bridge <james at xmas.demon.co.uk>