fedora on dell precision 450 with nvidia quadro fx 1000 = no graphics
Norman Nunn
npnunn at swbell.net
Fri Jul 2 06:48:46 UTC 2004
Try the vesa driver. It temporarily let me get the GUI going until I
sorted out the NVIDIA driver issue.
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:36, John McBride wrote:
> Hi everyone, I already have a message in the dell.com linux
> support/community area, but I figured I'd post here too just in case
> someone has seen or worked past this issue.
>
> I have a dell precision workstation 450 with the quadro fx 1000 board.
> When I try to install Fedora Core 1 it will not do a graphical install.
> I can see "Fedora" on the screen, but it is huge, pixelated and
> unusable. Also I have a Knoppix CDROM (3.3en) available; when booted as
> "knoppix lang=en" it cannot go into graphical mode--again the display is
> scrambled.
>
> Text mode is okay. I have been able to get fedora installed on the
> machine via text mode, and use it in runlevel 3, but it will not
> "startx". There is no signal to the display. redhat-config-xfree86 shows
> a bunch of thin blue and green vertical bars after several seconds, though.
>
> Next I tried doing a update with yum, and then installing the latest
> drivers from nvidia.com. Same symptoms.
>
> Finally I have tried downloaded the latest "dkms" and "nvidia-dkms" from
> the dell site and the results are the same...there are no errors in
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log, all seems well, but no video signal to the
> display when I startx.
>
> I have never used one of these cards before, it has the two strange (to
> me) DVI cable connections, and I am running them to two Sony monitors
> with the same type of plug.
>
> Thanks for any comments,
> John
>
> PS: I did RTFM and attempted a number of BIOS settings, as well as using
> the various NVIDIA agp modes (compiled in and set in the XFree config
> file). Nothing made a difference.
>
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