On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Joep Blom wrote:
I have the following problem installing FC5. I had installed FC3 en FC4 so I
did an upgrade.
System: AMD64 3000+, 1 GB,disk: 80 GB, DVD-ROM & DVD rewriter. Installation
from (selfburned) DVD.
Video: card nvidia; LCD monitor :H-freq: 31-81; V-freq. 56-75.
Problems:
1. When starting installation in graphical mode, screen goes black with a
small window saying: "signal out of sync".
2. Installation in text mode is completed but X is not installed and even the
old X libraries are all removed. Therefore graphical mode is also not
possible any more in FC4 (luckily FC3 still works as it is on another
partition and I UPGRADED FC4 to FC5).
My questions:
A. Is the problem known and how to solve it.
B. How can I (re) install the X windows system.
Hope anybody can help me out!
Did you have the commercial nvidia drivers installed?
If you can ssh into the machine, change the default init in /etc/inittab
from 5 to 3 and reboot. Once you are in text mode, you can fix the problem
without the hastle of a blank screen.
nvidia has a new driver that works under FC5. You will need to have
kernel-devel and xorg-x11-server-sdk installed.
If you have a copy of your old working xorg.conf, check to see if the
monitor definition is correct. There is also a log file in /var/log/ that
will tell you more information about why x did not come up correctly.
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