Some extra info/question 1) A guy on the nVidia forum told me to just try FC5t2, which includes the SATA driver. What do you think? I'd rather use FC4, simply because I already have those CD-roms and a slow internet connection. Isn't it possible to pass that driver to anaconda on a floppy? How? Above all, how and why could FC5 solve the first problem: > 1) When I boot from the first CD of Fedora Core 4 x86_64 I get: > initial text screen (the one where you can give boot options) > displayed perfectly. all following screen (do or skip mediacheck, > etc...) all messed up. By this I mean (text) image is very stable, > but every 2/3 lines of characters the columns are shifted, so I see > a bunch of disaligned blue or red rectangles. For the record, I've managed by trial and error to run mediacheck, and I see (written many times on the screen in fixed positions) the 0..100% message appear and progress, so it *seems* the disc is OK. Only it cannot drive the monitor with the onboard video GeForce 6150 in any way. Nothing changes with "linux resolution=1280x768" or "linux lowres". What else can I try? TIA, D.