This has been hot topic of conversation for a while - if you search the archives for "NVidia" you'll see lots of threads. There are 2 workarounds that I'm familiar with - one involves removing "rhgb" from the kernel line in grub.conf, and the other involves "udev". Read this *whole* thread: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg02617.html I took the "rhgb" approach, but I'm going to try the "udev" approach myself next. Right now I have to boot into runlevel 3 and run "startx" at the command prompt. HTH. Hardy Merrill --- Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:43 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend > wrote: > > I am running a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Ge Force > 5200 64meg video > > card. I downloaded the latest driver from > Nvidiaâ??s website NVIDIA- > > Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run. I followed the > instructions in their > > read.me exactly and had no problems with the > installation. During the > > installation it did ask if I wanted NVIDIA to > install a new kernel and > > I did select yes. Here is where the problem is I > was configuring > > xorg.conf as follows: > > Hi Mathew, > > I know from prior posts that there have been some > issues with the WUXGA > panels in terms of having to tweak the xorg.conf > settings. The > 'modeline' setting seems to be the most problematic > component. > > I located an xorg.conf file for a gentlemen that > appears to have gotten > his working properly. You might want to start out by > using his and > seeing how that works. It is located here: > > http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~rbirdman/configs/xorg.txt > > There are likely to be others here in the same boat > and who may be able > to offer you further assistance. I have the regular > UXGA panel on my > 5150 and have not had these issues. > > One of the places also to look for error messages > during the startup of > the x server is: > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > I would recommend that you change back to init level > 3 for the time > being until you get this resolved. That way, you can > at least boot to a > text mode console and use 'startx' to attempt to > bring up the GUI to aid > with debugging. > > HTH, > > Marc > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
