Installing 0.95 graphically with an ATI Radeon 9800
Martyn Drake
martyn-d at moving-picture.com
Wed Oct 15 20:44:22 UTC 2003
Hi,
This evening I've installed Fedora Core 0.95 on my home machine which is
a Dell Dimension 8300 configured with a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz processor on a
Canterwood (i.e. 875P) motherboard. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 graphics
card (NOT the Pro version) with 128Mb RAM.
Anaconda will happily detect the correct graphics card and monitor
(which is a Dell TFT 17" display whose exact model number escapes me,
but that's not important) but when it boots into X to continue the
installation I'm presented with a white screen and mouse pointer before
the entire machine locks-up and I have to do a hard reset. Not a
problem, I'll try installing via text mode and that works a treat.
On first boot-up, Fedora goes into graphical start-up (which looks
extremely nice, BTW - I love it!) and then starts up into first-boot
configuration. The Welcome to Fedora screen pops up and I click Next to
continue after which the machine once again completely locks up and I
have to do a hard reset. Tried to drop to run level 3 upon the next
reboot and start X normally and got as far as the Fedora Core logo
before the whole machine locked up again.
When I next rebooted, I dropped down into runlevel 3 again, but this
time installed the official ATI drivers, ran fglrxconfig and brought the
system back up to runlevel 5 and all was well. No problems since and
I've now got to explore what's in this new release :)
Unfortunately I don't have any logs when the machine crashed - I can't
see anything that would shed light as to why the standard X-server would
cause the machine to completely lock-up the way it did.
Regards,
Martyn
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