Hi Niels! Am Fr, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Niels Weber um 07:57: > Hi Christoph! > > First I want to say thank you for th e advise to use "nofb". That > machine now runs fedora without problems. Even X configured itself > completly automatically - something I've never seen before. Was not more than a wild guess :-) > > Am Fr, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Christoph Wickert um 02:20: > > Am Do, den 23.10.2003 schrieb Niels Weber um 23:33: > > > Still, on my other system (Geforce 4 ti 4200, Philips 150 P DFP it > > > doesn't matter if I choose nofb or not). > > You still can do the installation in text mode, skip the x configuration > > and reboot. > Ok, the thing with text mode installation (at least on that machine): > 1. It doesn't allow to choose packages individually. I thought that option is gone anyway in fedora. Is it back again in test 3??? (Would be great!) But you are right: Text install is not as good as graphical mode, e. g. configuration of the boot-manager. > 2. It always crashed on the second disk. I'll try a text mode next time. Did the same disc 2 work with graphical install? Would be very strange. > > What's the reason for using "fb" at the installation? Is it considered > a bug (should I add it to bugzilla) if my system only installs with > "nofb"? I'm not sure about the use of fb. I don't think it's used or necessary unless you set higher vga modes(? --duck&cover--). By the way: I'm using an old Elsa Erazor TNT II Pro (Nvidia Riva 128 I think) and have no problems with the fb. Mayby you can try to boot with fb but disable it's use in X with Option "UseFBDev" "false" in the device section. Might be worth a try, but be sure to make a new entry for that in grub, so you can always go back if it doesn't work. > > > > I think the problem is your TFT, not the graphics card , but i cannot > The issue here seems to be that the "nv" driver doesn't work with the > digital out (and as I understand bugzilla won't until nvidia gives the > needed information to the XFree86 developers - so probably it will never > work). Well, then you have to change the monitor or need to install the nvidia driver first. Should not be a problem, if the second disc did not crash. > > That was the reason for my question / proposal: That the binary > nvidia-drivers should be available sometime during the installation. This will never happen, for it is proprietary code and fedora core is open source. Und das ist auch gut so;-) Christoph -- Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxx>
