On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Kevin Wentland wrote:
I am going to reply to my own post..... I think I found the answer. Here it is.... someone called Pucko posted it to a message board.
1) Interrupt Grub from booting, edit the bootparameters with "e"-key, and remove the "rhgb"-parameter from the boot parameters. The continue booting normally. (This will skip the graphical boot in Fedora.)
2) Fedora complains about not being able to start GDM, ignore it and cancel all questions to get to the login prompt.
3) Login as root, enter "init 3" to go to single-user mode. Enter "modprobe nvidia" to load the nvidia-module.
Just to nitpick, init3 is not single-user mode, it's non-graphical multiuser mode. init 1 is single-user mode. But init 3 will work here.
Even easier would be to add "3" (without the quotes) to the kernel line when editing it in step 1.
4) Finally, enter "cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices/" to fix the boot problem.
5) Now just enter "init 5" and you're back in business.
But the easiest thing is to install the nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 and kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.10-1.760_FC3-1.0.6629-0.lvn.6.3 RPMs from rpm.livna.org. (There are other sources for nvidia RPMs as well.)
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:56:25 -0600, Kevin Wentland <kevin.wentland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I upgraded my FC1 to FC3
Now I can't get X to run....
I have a Chaintech Nvidia 5200 card...
Any help greatly appreciated.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
