f17 no video signal on nVidia 8800
Tim
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Mon Oct 22 07:46:43 UTC 2012
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 00:02 +-0200, Alain Roger wrote:
+AD4 i've just downloaded F17 and i tried to install it on my computer x86
+AD4 having a nVidia 8800 GT video card. after seeing only the logo at boot
+AD4 process, now everything i can see is a black screen :( and the Led of
+AD4 my monitor is blinking so it means no video signal. is there any
+AD4 compatibility issue with f17 and nvidia 8800 ? thank
Sounds awfully like what I've had to deal with: GRUB running at the
highest resolution that the graphics card could generate, regardless of
whether the scan/refresh rates were compatible with my monitor (which it
wasn't).
I don't know how you can fix that if you can't, at some stage, get to
see a display. I was lucky enough that once GRUB had finally booted up
an OS, the OS did run at a suitable rate, and I could edit the
configuration to change GRUB's resolution.
In the /etc/default/grub file, I added this line:
GRUB+AF8-GFXMODE+AD0-800x600
Then ran the +ACI-grub2-mkconfig+ACI command to regenerate the config file used
at boot time.
If it's X, itself, running at the wrong resolution, after GRUB has
handed over, and if Xorg hadn't been crippled, years ago, you could have
pressed CTRL ALT +- or - to change resolutions on the fly, until
something worked.
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