This is related to xfree86 as i am told. i have an AMD Athlon XP2500
system with an Nvidia GeForce FX5200 video card. when i am trying to
install Redhat 9 on this sytem, Anaconda detects my video card and
assigns the Generic VESA driver--this is where things go wrong. The
installer appears to start X but the screen goes blank and my monitor
button goes amber as if in sleep mode. I have tried several workarounds
like loading as "Linux lowres" "Linux resolution = (several sizes)"
"Linux xdrvr=nv" stc. i have even set the AGP to 4x in bios and the
video still crashes.
several sources have told me that all of this is due to Redhat's install
disk using an older version of XFree86, which doesn't detect the FX5200
card. do you know of any workarounds other than putting in an older
video card or installing in text mode (that has other issues)? please
let me know whatever you can.
thanks in advance for your support.
david valencia
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