Re: VIA Epia blank screen in X with FC4 ???

From: AJ (ajean_at_pas_de_spam_videotron.ca)
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:05:41 -0400

Sagaert Johan a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I am newbie to linux
>
> i installed FC4 (fresh install ), X shows only blank screen (video driver
> problem with VIA onboard vga ?)
>
> I managed to boot in runlevel 3, do'nt know how to fix X so i can use GUI
>
> johan
>
>
>

Hi Joan,

I'm a newbie linux user but I'm so proud today to be able to help you! I
also have an EPIA mobo and the problem you're describing is well known
and is coming from the Cyberblade video card on the EPIA. I got this
problem yesterday, did some research on the net and got the solution.

Here it is:

There is a file called libvgahw.a that is corrupted (or not working) in
the distribution and the Cyberblade video card is not able to display X
in Fedora Core 4 properly because of it. This file is located in

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ (or something like that)

In order to fix the bug, this file has to be replaced by the equivalent
file compiled with the Fedora Core 3 version. You'll be able to find the
good file here: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a

I strongly recommend you to read to complete story here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242

Hope this helps,

AJ

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