White Screen - what to do

[spjacobs]

I have a 6 year old IBM ThinkPad. I installed Fedora Core 1 without any problems and it worked well. I just downloaded and installed (???) Fedora Core 4. During the graphic install, I kept getting a white screen. I tried the text install, and again, after rebooting, a white screen. I tried all of the variations suggested by the F3 or was it F4 key and again a white screen. (All of these screens occupied about 75% of my LCD monitor.)

I reinstalled Fedora Core 1, then installed Core 4 as an upgrade. This time, I got a full sized white screen. Following, but not fully understanding the Grub Edit suggestions in this forum, I was able to login at the Command Line level - so, I know that Fedora 4 is, up to a certain point, properly installed.

How do I get Fedora Core 4 to recognize my monitor and get past the white screen?

Please help me get past this snag.

Thanks
Steve Jacobs :confused:

[amessina]

i get the same problem with an ibm thinkpad r30 with a trident cyberblade monitor chipset. i have not been able to get fc4 to work with it because of that.

so i would appreciate some help too.

[michaelr7177]

My notebook is Compqa Armada 110, and have the same problem.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=407045#post407045
this article fix my problem. if you can't find ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a, please try http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/libvgahw.a.
hope it will work to your NB.