Problem installing FC3 test 3 with nvidia

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Fri Oct 29 15:15:38 UTC 2004


fre, 29.10.2004 kl. 09.28 skrev Kim Lux:
> Can you configure X to use VESA ?  I've got an nvidia card that is not
> directly supported, but it works in VESA mode.
> 

set driver in xorg.conf to "vesa"

> Kim
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:15 +0200, Mailing List wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a problem installing FC3 test 3.
> > I have a Nvidia Quadro 4 videocard.
> > This is default not supported in FC (gives black screen on screen 0
> > and scrambled screen on screen1)
> > During install, I chose text-install to avoid the graphical installation.
> > (That helped installing FC1 before)
> > But after installing, it will boot in first-boot-mode , starting a
> > graphical screen , starting with the licence agreement.
> > This will turn black after a few seconds, leaving me with a problem: i
> > need to install nvidia drivers in order to have X working, but I need
> > to finish the installation with X ..
> > 
> > What can I do about this? A reboot doesnt help, will take me to the
> > graphical screen again.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ruud
> > 




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