New FC4 install will not boot - Trident driver probs

[bobgoodwin]

G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:12:48AM -0500, bobgoodwin wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>TThe video board giving me trouble is apparently similar, a "Trident 
>>Blade 3D."
>>Bob Goodwin   Zuni, VA.
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>Just installed FC4 (to test the 4->5 upgrade path) on my testbed machine
>which has a Trident Card.
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>In xorg.conf, change the driver from "trident" to "vesa" and you'll get
>a working display.
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Yes that makes it work.  I wonder if there is not another driver 
available for the Trident board?

Well at least I can deal with what I have now, it seems to be working 
well enough and that's certainly better than re-partitioning to install 
FC-3 just to get some different files!

Thanks for the help.

BobG