Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Bjørn Ivar Johnsen]

How, exactly, do I edit that file? Where do I find it??

Vennlig hilsen
Bjørn Ivar Johnsen

Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>:

> I had exactly this problem starting with Fedora Core 2, right up to 6.
>
> Try going with the VESA driver initially.  Just edit the xorg.conf.   
> It will be slow, not support fancy graphics, but it got me going at  
> least.  The reason for my problem was an NVIDIA card made as a  
> special for for Gateway.  I tried various drivers from their legacy  
> archives but without success.  For most applications - and getting  
> used to Linux - VESA is fine!
>
> I recently bought a Shuttle PC with NVIDIA on-board graphics and the  
> NVIDIA (not NV) driver has been fine and I'm using Fedora 8.
>
> Mike
>
> Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I have a serious problem with (all) Linux distributions included  
>> Fedora. After installing or use of live dvd, I cannot see anything  
>> but stripes on my screen. I have a pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and  
>> Nvidia card. I have tried to install the latest Nvidia driver, but  
>> to no help at all. I have tried many versions of Linux, and also  
>> both the i386 and the one for 64, but all with the same result!!!
>> If anyone could help me with this problem, I would be wery pleased  
>> as I would wery much like to go from crappy winows xp to Linux!
>> Vennlig hilsen
>> Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
>
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