Greetings,
I installed FC2 from the standard DVD on a machine with the following hardware:
- Soltek SL75FRN2-L motherboard with nVidia nForce2 chipset - nVidia FX5200 AGP graphics card - Onboard Realtek AC'97 audio - Wireless M$ keyboard and mouse
Install went pretty smoothly although it took forever before the graphical installer came up. After installation, I ran apt to update all components including the kernel. I then found the following glitches:
- No sound (no manner of alsamixer fiddling would get it working) - Graphics identified as Generic nVidia. On my 17" NEC LCD monitor, with resolution set to 1280x1024 (works perfectly in XP), the picture is larger than the monitor can display. Does not appear to be something which can be fixed by resizing the image using the controls on the monitor, it actually seems as if FC2 is sending a higher resolution to the monitor than what is set in the display settings - Tried installing the nVidia drivers from their web site. It installed (complained about the rivafb stuff but I don't have one so doubt that module loads) but then when I reboot the system hangs just after the graphical bootsplash screen has come up. The nVidia splash screen did appear. - Booting into runlevel 3 only brings me as far as the login prompt, but the system does not accept any keyboard input! Anything typed at the Login: prompt is instantly erased so I have no possibility to login. Same thing if booting from the rescue CD. Could this be anything to do with my wireless keyboard?
Only option is to reinstall from the DVD.
Can anyone suggest what I could do to get the display drivers working, before I reinstall?
thanks, /POL