Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem (NVidia and blank screen during install.

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:51 +0200, sizo nsibande wrote:
> > > Probably the card is too recent to have successful Open Source support
> > > for the driver. NVidia does not release specifications and/or source
> > > code to allow decent support for their products.
> 
> I don't think that this is the issue as I have a Nvidia 6600GT and FC6
> supports it just fine.
> 
> It could be that your machines power management is interfering with
> the install process 'somehow', what usually works best "as I too with
> my card have had such a problem" is when your distroe boots up and
> lists a number of options before you hit enter to install, try first
> to install the system on text mode = linux text, if this still has
> issues try: linux noapic acpi=off or just linux noapic. This has
> usually worked just fine with me on more than just one series of
> Nvidia cards.

Didn't Staton Finley report an FC5 issue with SELinux and nVidia
drivers? The OP might want to visit his howto site 
http://www.stanton-finley.net/
and check out the suggestions. Ric