I am hoping to get a look at Fedora Core4 but am unable to install it due to an apparent video card issue.

The card is a Trident Blade 3D.

We use this on a number of machines at work, and I have one here at home. When I choose the graphical installer, the Xserver starts to a paper white screen and is forever hung.

I did a web search and found posts from 2004 about this on bugzilla, but found no solution.

Is there a way around this? So far, I have tried it on four machines, all with a variety of motherboard/CPU/memory combos, and the Trident Blade 3D is about all that is in common among them, and even my home PC.

If someone has a workaround, please don't assume I know all the commands and the lingo used during installation choices, as I have been away from Linux for a while :-)

I was going to use the text mode install, but it seems like that might get me installed, but then not able to boot the Xserver eventually anyway, so I will wait and see if there are any words of wisdom from the experts.

Much obliged for any assistance

John

You are the second person I've seen who has had this problem, only this time around I know the solution . The last time this happened is here . The answer is in the last post (I thought I had the problem solved, but apparently it wasn't an xorg.conf thing). It explains how to replace the buggy driver for the trident, and I assume it works. If it doesn't, it has a link to another post which does (I guess).

Thank you very much for the assistance. I tried several of the many fixes listed in the threads you pointed out.

Still nothing, but like every other time I have tried to install and check out some distro of linux, I am stymied by the lack of knowledge, and the inference by so many helpful people, that I can interpret the commands and steps that they kindly take the time to write up. Sometimes, its not just understanding, but caring enough to even try to install something in a half assed manner like first text, then boot a linux CD distro, hack a few files, and then boot into graphical mode. Given that kind of start, I would not have a lot of confidence in the rest of the system.

I would rather open the ISO, replace what appears to be a buggy driver, reburn the disk, and have the install work right out of the box, instead of having to own a knoppix CD, or having to work terminal commands and mount drives to edit files.

Until someone can explain things better than I have seen, I will just have to stay with windows I guess... :-)

Either 'wrong' distro, hardware too old, video card has broken drivers, or just plain can't make it work. I have seen linux on other machines, I like what I see, but I am not willing to buy a new computer just to run it.

Much obliged for the pointers.

Thanks,

John