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

From: Sagaert Johan (sagaert.j)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:44:01 +0200

i will check this out
i was wondering why these drivers are modified .My RH9 and FC2 worked fine
on the epia.

i have a feeling things got more buggy since fedore toke over from redhat..
(a kind of 2 steps forward, 1 backward feeeling )

"AJ" <ajean@pas_de_spam_videotron.ca> wrote in message
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> 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