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Well I got my hands on Fedora, checked checksum and all was fine, burnt the ISO and was about to install via GUI, however after it detected my video card, minotor and mouse, xserver was to start, I see white screen, cursor with a shadow, but then it freezes, nothing happened, couldn't move the curor or anything. I tried text install, since I had problems installing SuSe 8.2 Pro, because the refresh rate was too high for my monitor and I couldn't change it. Well that install worked fine using the text mode.
I booted in the first time, but yet again it froze when it gave me the first boot configuration screen, all the things you usually setup after fresh install, samething, curor would not move or anything, not even the keyboard, whole system froze.
Next, I manually rebooted and I saw the new GUI boot screen, but it soon shut of displaying the "press Y within 3 seconds to perform integirty check" since I had to reboot manually, I press Y it scans and its all good, but then it contines to load modules and it does stops after checking IEEE 1934 ports, it just says [OK] and stops. That's in the text mode but I can move my mouse and keyboard. I also tried booting in the 'safe mode'. Same thing.
My system specifications are:
3.0GHZ P4 HT
Asus P4C-Deluxe
1GB XMMS RAM
ATI 9800 128MB
SB Audigy Plantium 2
Sony DVD+/-RW
Samsung Combo-Drive
whoa deja vu... i have the exact same problem and did both installations like you did. im thinking its the ati 9800 pro 128 i have since thats the only spec that matches yours. good grief!
athlonxp @2.2ghz
512mb ddr3200 corsair xmsll
ati radeon 9800 pro 128mb
lite-on 4x dvd-rw
chaintech 7.1 envy24ht (destroys my audigy and for only $27)
western digital 80gb SE
antec 400watt
my system is absolutely stable in SuSE, RH9, and windows 2000
Originally posted by tr1kstanc3 whoa deja vu... i have the exact same problem and did both installations like you did. im thinking its the ati 9800 pro 128 i have since thats the only spec that matches yours. good grief!
athlonxp @2.2ghz
512mb ddr3200 corsair xmsll
ati radeon 9800 pro 128mb
lite-on 4x dvd-rw
chaintech 7.1 envy24ht (destroys my audigy and for only $27)
western digital 80gb SE
antec 400watt
my system is absolutely stable in SuSE, RH9, and windows 2000
GRRRR
Yea that really does suck, I began thinking that its the ATI also because I got passed everything and it contines to freeze after I log in and KDE is about to start loading. Let me know if you figure out anything.
After a short seach in bugzilla at redhats' site, all I found was http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/....cgi?id=106102 and it relates to the test version...I thought they would have fixed this...and the problem is due to ATI...
lol...welcome to the club...I'm currently looking for those two pachest that are suppose to fix this, yet the final release of the product was suppose to fix this (since the topic was closed day before fedora shipped), but it seems it hasn't
Alright, I'm running out of ideas. I was trying to upgrade to the XFree86 -42, RPM which I got from red hats' site, was trying to mount a NTFS partition to get the file, but it said the that kernel does not recognize the format????? Then I tried burning the RPM to a cd and using that, it said it has been installled, yet I'm not to sure about that...it still freezes...
Download the XFree86 4.3.0 driver version from ATI's web site. Boot into Fedora using the interactive mode, disable firstboot option, when you are prompted to enter your login and password, go to the text mode and then log in. Next, make sure you have kernel-source installed on your system and install the ATI driver. After the driver is installe, you will have to run a program to configure XFree86. Restart xserver and it should all be working.
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