Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:43 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> It is almost confusing with all the different distributions there is
> of
> Linux, but I think that if you are happy with one, there is no reason
> to
> change to another. BUT, I must admit that I think Fedora looks better
> in a
> way, so I havent quite given up trying installing it;)

Fedora is more bleeding edge than most distros, so you get the latest
and greatest stuff but also the headaches of testing new software.
That's what Fedora is for. If you just want to try Linux you might
indeed be happier with Suse or Ubuntu or ...

> I am wery tempted to take out the nVidia card, and use the internal,
> just to
> see if the innstallation will be more successful then! Does anyone
> know
> anything bout that??

Just do it (be sure to connect your monitor to the right port :-). It'll
probably work right away. Unless you want to do fancy graphics or games,
onboard video is perfectly usable. It's what I have myself.

poc