>> I'm trying to install Fedora 13 on a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E (F-series) >> and I'm incurring in the following 2 problems >> >> 1. If I try to customize the partitioning layout, I get a python error >> and the suggestion to file a bug. I just applied for an account to >> bugzilla.redhat.com and I might try to reproduce the bug once I have >> access to bugzilla. In the meanwhile, since I'm installing on a SSD, >> I'm curious to know if somebody else had the same problem with this >> type of hard drives. > Not sure what's going on here, but then again I wanted a striped LVM > partition (4GB SSD, 4GB SD) so I used System Rescue CD booted on a USB > flash drive to setup my partitions. I only let Anaconda format them. Oh well, I still haven't got access to bugzilla, so I'll worry to file a bug when I eventually get the username and password (BTW, is that normal that it takes "so long" - i.e. more than 24 hours - for an account?) >> 2. More serious: the screen resolution used is wrong and as a result I >> can see only a portion of the screen content, which creates >> difficulties both at installation time, when one wants to click on the >> "forward" button :), and during "normal" usafe. >> After installation I tried to install the nvidia drivers from RPM >> fusion, resulting in a not anymore functioning system (the boot >> process gets till when the fedora logo gets "filled up" and than hangs >> there forever) >> The graphic card is a Nvidia geforce 330M. >> Specifying the parameter "resolution=1920x1080" at boot time didn't help. >> Any ideas how to proceed? > Try adding "rdblacklist=nouveau" to your grub kernel parameters in >"/boot/grub/menu.lst". This usually happens after a fresh install >because the initial ram disk still has the nouveau driver in it and >once it's loaded the nvidia driver can't load. If the proper module >blacklist was added by the package, which it should have been, this >will be taken care of for you at the next kernel update but it doesn't >hurt to leave the kernel parameter there. Richard, thanks for your hint, but unfortunately this didn't fix the problem. I now have a black screen after the "filled-up logo". Is there a way to boot and loading a "compatibility" display driver? So that I can remove the nvidia packages... I just came across a IA 64 specific readme on the nvidia website: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-ia64/1.0-5336/README.IA64 I assume that the RPMFusion package redistributes this proprietary driver but....Is that a typo or does the above readme really state that the 64 bit drivers do not work with kernel 2.6???!! > Also, once you do that it will revert to a text mode boot up, if you > want the graphical bootup add a "vga=..." kernel parameter as well. > The best way to figure out what resolution is to manually add > "vga=ask" the first time and pick one of the available resolutions, > such as 317 or whatever it is. Once you find one you like (this will > also affect virtual terminals), add it to your grub kernel options but > put "0x" in front of your choice, i.e.: "vga=0x317" Actually this didn't fix the problem when X gets started... it still leaves a portion of the screen chopped out... I'm starting to wonder if these problems coudl have an easy happy ending by just installing the 32-bit version of fedora. :) Fede -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
