Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:26 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> 
> Vennlig hilsen
> Bjørn Ivar Johnsen
> 
> Den 11. aug.. 2008 kl. 03.12 skrev Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.s 
> e>:
> 
> > Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:
> >> Den 10. aug.. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>:
> >>> Try going with the VESA driver initially.  Just edit the xorg.conf.
> >>
> >> How, exactly, do I edit that file? Where do I find it??
> >
> > You don't edit configuration files until you have installed Fedora.
> >
> > The full path to the file is "/etc/xorg.conf". First type the
> > command "cp /etc/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.conf.backup" to save a copy of  
> > the
> > original file in case you need to change it back. Then
> > type "nano /etc/xorg.conf" to edit it. If Nano is missing, install  
> > it with
> > the command "yum install nano". But first get through the  
> > installation.
> >
> > As for what changes you should do to xorg.conf, I'll let Mike answer  
> > that.
> >
> > Björn Persson
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> 
> Could anyone please tell me if there is a command I can use to get  
> from text version of fedora to the graphical version?!
> This because I am sure of that my F7 doesent work on my keyboard!!
> 
> You see I finally got those "yum update" and the nvidia driver  
> installation to work, (I think, Surely after I wrote the command "yum  
> update", after giving the new repo adress for nvidia, it started  
> downloading, at an incredible speed I must say, but now and for the  
> last 5 minutes or so, the prosess seemed to stop. I now have a black  
> screen full of text!!
> I can give u the latest line:
> "nautilus-extensions  x86_64  2.22.5.1-1.fc9  updates  45k"!
> The above lines are wery simular, just with different names!
> 
> What should I do now?
> Wait much longer, or try a reboot?
> 
> BTW I used the "Live DVD", could not get the "Install DVD" to work  
> anymore!
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wait until the update is finished - there are a lot of updates at this
point so it will take quite a while to download and install them.

If you installed the Livna release package, you will still need to run
the command...
'yum install kmod-nvidia'
to install the proprietary nvidia drivers from Livna. It's all explained
here...
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher

Craig