FC 5 on Toshiba Satellite A105-S2021 15.4" Widescreen: Cant get X to work

["Finnur Ö. Guðmundsson"]

Hi,

I had the same problem on my workstation, a custom built PC using 
Nforce4 chipset / Nvidia 6600GT videocard (and a 20.1" widescreen lcd). 
I used text mode to install, booted to init 3 , grabbed the Nvidia 
drivers from nvidia.com, installed all updates and installed 
kernel-smp-devel, rebooted and ran the Nvidia installer and used 
nvidia-xconfig to modify the default xorg.conf and then tweaked it 
manually (for correct resolution). Then i was able to start X. I cannot 
use the drivers that come with Xorg (atleast not nv, didnt try anything 
else).

Anyone knows if there is a workaround for this during the install ? 
...its not like it matters after you have installed the nvidia/ati 
driver but this probably scares alot of people not used to work out 
kinks on fresh linux box ;)...

Bgrds,

Finnzi

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been trying to get FC 5 to work on a Toshiba Satellite A105-S2021 15.4" 
> Widescreen. 
>
> During the installation, when I tried graphical install I got messed up screen 
> (colorful random lines going up and down the screen). So I tried text 
> installing and that works fine. 
>
> After install, I can't get X to work. system-config-display or startx gives me 
> the same problem described above. I also tried grabbing the latest kernel 
> (did a "yum -y update") and then downloaded and installed Livna's ATI driver 
> with "yum install kmod-fglrx", but that didn't work either.
>
> I suspect this is because the laptop has a widescreen. From searching the 
> internet, I found that this info: "Graphics Chipset : Radeon Xpress 200M" for 
> the laptop. 
>
> So I am wondering if anyone has the same model of laptop, or if anyone can 
> offer help with what needs to be tweaked in the xorg.conf. Even if you use 
> older FC version, or similar toshiba laptop w/ widescreen, perhaps I can 
> steal the necessary tweak. I've googled but hasn't came up with anything.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help.
> RDB
>