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

Sebastian Gurovich sebas0 at gmail.com
Wed May 30 14:17:04 UTC 2007


Would the xdriver=vesa support 3D effects?
Ie could one install say Beryl ?


On 5/30/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> V at ly wrote:
> > i'm gonna try that and see if it works. i'm currently running Fedora
> > Core 4. with this one i had no problem with the graphical installer. if
> > you know could you tell me what has changed so much in the graphical
> > installer for the 6th version of Fedora? maybe that's the problem....
> > anyway i'm looking forward to the next distribution release.
>   > --
> >  >>> V at ly <<<
> >
>
> If the graphical installer worked fine when installing FC4 but fails
> when trying to install FC6, I do not know what caused the regression.
>
> The regression might be caused by the reduced xorg.conf file not having
> adequate information for the installer to get things right for the GUI
> installer. The FC4 xorg.conf was more elaborate than the one used for
> FC6 and F7. The driver or the hardware is probably not the direct cause
> of the blank screen with the newer installer.
>
> linux xdriver=vesa should work if xdriver=nv does not work.
>
> Jim
>
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