Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Teo Fonrouge]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 03:18:07 am 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!!!

Hello,

You don't mention the Fedora version, but, assuming that you are trying to 
install F9 I can tell you that I had similar issues regarding nvidia cards 
(only with F9). I'm also assuming that you nvidia card is a relatively a new 
one IOW it wont need the nvidia-legacy package.

As a first, you can try to update all your system (latest xorg- packages make 
difference), also you need to install the livna nvidia drivers and then 
install the kmod-nvidia package.

1. as root do (you can do this in a text console):

  # yum -y update && reboot

  once that computer has rebooted the graphics mode probably is now working 
ok, if not, then do the following command to try to set a graphics mode with 
a vesa driver:

# system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa --set-resolution=1024x768

2. even if you don't have graphics mode yet, do the following to install the 
nvidia drivers from livna:

# rpm -Uvh 
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/livna-release-9-1.noarch.rpm

# yum -y install kmod-nvidia && reboot

3. Now hopefully you'll have now a graphics mode running, if not we have a few 
more moves: 
remove the xorg.conf and create a new one with the nvidia utils:

  # rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  # nvidia-xconfig
  # reboot

4. As last resource (if at this point you dont have a graphics mode) do:

# 
system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=nvidia --set-resolution=1024x768


5. If all fails, please don't desperate, give us more details on your 
equipment and the messages that you are getting from the above procedures.


HTH


best regards

Teo Fonrouge