Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video card and using "nv" for example? I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the screen just goes black when it starts the gui. I have been trying to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver. FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :)
For what it is worth, Debian testing network boot installs fine and it is on a 2.6.21 kernel.
I have tried some boot.iso's from rawhide the past week, but they just stop on unpacking initrd.blah.
if you append ' 3' (without quotes) to the kernel line, will start in runlevel 3 (multiuser,network,text) and then you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , replace Driver "something" line with Driver "vesa" save and reboot.
2007/7/23, Justin Conover justin.conover@gmail.com:
Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video card and using "nv" for example? I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the screen just goes black when it starts the gui. I have been trying to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver. FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :)
For what it is worth, Debian testing network boot installs fine and it is on a 2.6.21 kernel.
I have tried some boot.iso's from rawhide the past week, but they just stop on unpacking initrd.blah.
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On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:05 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video card and using "nv" for example? I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the screen just goes black when it starts the gui. I have been trying to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver. FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :)
On the installer command line:
xdriver=vesa
If you've already installed, boot into runlevel 3 and edit xorg.conf.
And yeah, G80 LVDS is broken, even upstream. I'm currently beating on it, hopefully have a fix soon. F7 is broken because the nv driver attempts to claim all G80 devices as belonging to nv, which turned out to be a mistake.
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On 7/23/07, Adam Jackson ajackson@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 08:05 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video card and using "nv" for example? I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the screen just goes black when it starts the gui. I have been trying to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver. FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :)
On the installer command line:
xdriver=vesa
If you've already installed, boot into runlevel 3 and edit xorg.conf.
And yeah, G80 LVDS is broken, even upstream. I'm currently beating on it, hopefully have a fix soon. F7 is broken because the nv driver attempts to claim all G80 devices as belonging to nv, which turned out to be a mistake.
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Thank you, that is what I was looking for! Do you need my new laptop to test on like my ati laptop :)
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 10:44 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
Thank you, that is what I was looking for! Do you need my new laptop to test on like my ati laptop :)
Nah, have one. What I _need_ is for nvidia to tell me how to program the actual output, rather than just the scaler in front of it that might or might not be set up to do the native panel size on the output.
You can imagine how well that's going.
But hey, why do anything easy.
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