Re: Fedora core 13 on Dell Vostro 3500 with i5 -- NVIDIA(R) Geforce™ 310M

[Vali Cobelea]

hi,
i had the same issues with my laptop (i5 and nvida 360m), for nvidia drivers
setup just do what these guys are saying here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

hope it work !
cheers,
Valente

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Miguel Ángel Pérez <mangelp at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You'll have to give some more information. First how you installed nvidia
> drivers and second what errors is throwing xorg in startup to not being able
> to boot. You can use the next command in console and post/attach the output:
>     cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | egrep "[E|W]{2}"
>
> You can store it to a file this way (the last part is the path to the
> file):
>     cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | egrep "[E|W]{2} > /tmp/xorg_errors.txt
>
> Also you might found aditional configuration steps here:
>     http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752
>
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-b52d8a785c3188f03b893e4f8c75f8d7e37c9e2b
>
> Regards.
>
> 2010/10/25 Muhammad Uzair Khan <m.uzairkhan at gmail.com>
>
>> hi again.
>> I posted a day or two ago about my problems with trying to boot Fedora
>> core 13 on a Dell vostro 3500.  With help from this mailing list i
>> managed to get the system installed.
>>
>> I tried to set my laptop to use a external monitor as well (dell), and
>> had a very fuzzy output on the second (external) monitor. I installed
>> nvidia-settings which asked me to install nvidia-config. Once i ran the
>> nvidia.config everything went downhill from there. Now i cannot even
>> boot my system (well i can get it to boot in single mode but thats about
>> it).
>> I have tried running Xorg -configure to generate a new xconfig.con file
>> but nothing seems to be working. My laptop still gets stuck while
>> booting, unless i use  single mode.  I am kinda sure that its a problem
>> with the nvidia drivers but have no idea on what to do next.
>>
>> I am most grateful for any suggestions.
>> regards
>> khan
>>
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>
>
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> Saludos,
> Miguel Ángel Pérez
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