Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:32 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing Fedora-13 on a Dell E6410 laptop. This has an NVidia Quadro NVS 
> 3100M graphics card. The install goes fine .
> 
> When I boot with the "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter I only get 800x600 
> resolution.
> 
> If I leave out the "nomodeset" parameter I get a blank screen.
> 
> Does anybody have the magic incantations to get this graphics card recognised 
> with reasonable resolution.
> 
> I've tried with the live CD and get a blank screen also.
>  
> Thanks,
> 
> Tony

iommu=soft

will get it going.  The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) have
fixed the bug that caused the screen to go blank so the 'iommu=soft' is
not needed after you get updated.

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