On Wednesday 25 August 2010 16:51:16 Greg Woods wrote: > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. There is something > about the recent kernels; I can't get it to work at anywhere near the > resolution it is capable of with either nouveau or the Nvidia > proprietary driver. > > I did get Fedora 12 to work. It was a convoluted process. The installer > worked OK using an external monitor. I never could get X to boot > properly after that under nouveau, with either the LCD display or the > external monitor. I got a blank screen on the LCD and a warning from the > monitor that this timing could not be displayed. So what I ended up > doing was booting non-graphically, installing the Nvidia driver, then > starting X. With a bit of fiddling with nvidia-settings, I am *finally* > able to use X at the full LCD resolution (1440x990). > > Using F12 instead of F13 is an acceptable workaround for now, but of > course sooner or later I will need to move forward. I may actually give > the F14 beta a try just to see if it will work. Does anyone know what it > is about the recent kernels? nouveau won't work post-install even with > "nomodeset", and the Nvidia driver will install but fails to initialize > the chip when X is started (I just get an error to that effect in > Xorg.0.log). > > --Greg I will also give the f14-Alpha a try an dsee if it works any better. Tony -- 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
