Problems in upgrading in grahical mode of FC4 to FC5

[alan]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Joep Blom wrote:

> I have the following problem installing FC5. I had installed FC3 en FC4 so I 
> did an upgrade.
> System: AMD64 3000+, 1 GB,disk: 80 GB, DVD-ROM & DVD rewriter. Installation 
> from (selfburned) DVD.
> Video: card nvidia; LCD monitor :H-freq: 31-81; V-freq. 56-75.
> Problems:
>  1. When starting installation in graphical mode, screen goes black with a 
> small window saying: "signal out of sync".
> 2. Installation in text mode is completed but X is not installed and even the 
> old X libraries are all removed. Therefore graphical mode is also not 
> possible any more in FC4 (luckily FC3 still works as it is on another 
> partition and I UPGRADED FC4 to FC5).
> My questions:
> A. Is the problem known and how to solve it.
> B. How can I (re) install the X windows system.
> Hope anybody can help me out!

Did you have the commercial nvidia drivers installed?

If you can ssh into the machine, change the default init in /etc/inittab 
from 5 to 3 and reboot. Once you are in text mode, you can fix the problem 
without the hastle of a blank screen.

nvidia has a new driver that works under FC5.  You will need to have 
kernel-devel and xorg-x11-server-sdk installed.

If you have a copy of your old working xorg.conf, check to see if the 
monitor definition is correct.  There is also a log file in /var/log/ that 
will tell you more information about why x did not come up correctly.

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