F18 no support for NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card?

[Kevin Martin]

On 05/15/13 11:21, Paul Erickson wrote:
> I have been trying to install F18 on an A7V8Z-x with a  NV18GL [Quadro NVS 280 SD] (rev c1) video card. The same configuration is
> fine with F17, but with F18 after the install and first reboot, the grub screen
> comes up fine, but then the screen goes grey and in the middle of the screen is a rectangle outlined faintly in white, which I
> assume is the login box, but no text or other indicators are intelligible. I have tried installing the nvidia drivers from the
> command line, but also no
> joy.Has anyone else been able to get F18 to work with this video card,
> and if so, how.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> cheers, Paul

Can you boot to runlevel 3?  What does dmesg show you about the card?  Can you login via ssh to the system after a reboot and look
at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

Kevin