I have a dell precision workstation 450 with the quadro fx 1000 board. When I try to install Fedora Core 1 it will not do a graphical install. I can see "Fedora" on the screen, but it is huge, pixelated and unusable. Also I have a Knoppix CDROM (3.3en) available; when booted as "knoppix lang=en" it cannot go into graphical mode--again the display is scrambled.
Text mode is okay. I have been able to get fedora installed on the machine via text mode, and use it in runlevel 3, but it will not "startx". There is no signal to the display. redhat-config-xfree86 shows a bunch of thin blue and green vertical bars after several seconds, though.
Next I tried doing a update with yum, and then installing the latest drivers from nvidia.com. Same symptoms.
Finally I have tried downloaded the latest "dkms" and "nvidia-dkms" from the dell site and the results are the same...there are no errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, all seems well, but no video signal to the display when I startx.
I have never used one of these cards before, it has the two strange (to me) DVI cable connections, and I am running them to two Sony monitors with the same type of plug.
Thanks for any comments, John
PS: I did RTFM and attempted a number of BIOS settings, as well as using the various NVIDIA agp modes (compiled in and set in the XFree config file). Nothing made a difference.
