Try the vesa driver. It temporarily let me get the GUI going until I sorted out the NVIDIA driver issue. On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:36, John McBride wrote: > Hi everyone, I already have a message in the dell.com linux > support/community area, but I figured I'd post here too just in case > someone has seen or worked past this issue. > > 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. >
