Fedora Users — Re: Nvidia nforce2 mobo/graphics problem

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 13:39 +0200, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr - Nordic/Baltic - Java Web Services - Sun Microsystems wrote:

Greetings,

I installed FC2 from the standard DVD on a machine with the following 
hardware:

- Soltek SL75FRN2-L motherboard with nVidia nForce2 chipset
- nVidia FX5200 AGP graphics card
- Onboard Realtek AC'97 audio
- Wireless M$ keyboard and mouse

Install went pretty smoothly although it took forever before the 
graphical installer came up. After installation, I ran apt to update all 
components including the kernel. I then found the following glitches:

- No sound (no manner of alsamixer fiddling would get it working)
- Graphics identified as Generic nVidia. On my 17" NEC LCD monitor, with 
resolution set
  to 1280x1024 (works perfectly in XP), the picture is larger than the 
monitor can display.
  Does not appear to be something which can be fixed by resizing the 
image using the controls
  on the monitor, it actually seems as if FC2 is sending a higher 
resolution to the monitor than

You could be having a virtual screen larger than the real one.

  what is set in the display settings
- Tried installing the nVidia drivers from their web site. It installed 
(complained about the
  rivafb stuff but I don't have one so doubt that module loads) but then 
when I reboot the system
  hangs just after the graphical bootsplash screen has come up. The 
nVidia splash screen did appear.

Well... the same happened to me also... the installer didn't change the driver in xorg.conf from nv to nvidia

- Booting into runlevel 3 only brings me as far as the login prompt, but 
the system does not
  accept any keyboard input! Anything typed at the Login: prompt is 
instantly erased so I have no
  possibility to login. Same thing if booting from the rescue CD. Could 
this be anything to do
  with my wireless keyboard?

Weird

Try posting your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Maybe we can help and solve that annoying reinstall solution.
I'm not sure about that wireless keyboard thing... It's weird. If you can post-it from X11 because as I understand you have no keyboard in the console.

Cheers,
d3vi1

Răzvan Corneliu VILT e-mail:razvan.vilt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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