[CUT: bugzilla account request] >>>> 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. > > If you saw the graphical bootup (called Plymouth) and did not add a > vga= then the rdblacklist= parameter did not take. If it does and you > don't specify vga= then you should see the text mode bootup version of > Plymouth, so I would assume the nouveau driver is still loading. You > definitely need to fix this problem first. > > Perhaps you can post your /boot/grub/grub.conf to the list? (this is > the same as menu.lst, in fact, menu.lst is a symbolic link to > grub.conf) Of couse, here it goes: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.img title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64.img title Windows 7 DE rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 I wonder if I can just remove the nouveau drivers now that the nvidia ones are "somehow" working. [CUT] > I think you're confusing IA 64 with x86_64. Your system is x86 based. > I use the rpmfusion packaged driver on 3 x86_64 installs of Fedora 12 > & 13. You are absolutely right... in the desperation of finding a solution I overlooked the architecture information... :) >>> 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 would leave the vga parameter out until you get the nouveau driver > to stop loading. > >> I'm starting to wonder if these problems coudl have an easy happy >> ending by just installing the 32-bit version of fedora. :) > > It may be worth a try, but I don't think your problems are 32 vs. 64 > bit problems. I did a quick search online and found some bug reports > for your specific model on Ubuntu for graphical issues[1]. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/565382 Thanks for your very informative response. Actually by manually editing the xorg.conf file as I'm now again able to boot and I can even see the whole screen! :) I still have to specify at boot time But, even more funnily, I have the following error at boot time: Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526: NNNN Segmentation fault "$@" where NNNN is a 4 digit random number... Any more hints? :) Thanks for your help so far! -- 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
