Fedora 8 on laptop lenovo T61P

Tue Jan 8 20:49:37 UTC 2008

On Jan 8, 2008 11:19 AM, Francois <frmas at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've tried to install fedora 8 on my brand new laptop Lenovo T61P, but it
> has failed at the beginning, when loading the native X server.
> The graphic adapter seems, (according to what I found on the internet) to be
> an nvidia Quadro Fx 570M.
> Is there a way to install F8 on it? Thanks. Francois

Install in text mode, then use the nvidia packages from the livna repo.

More specific help here:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_8_on_a_ThinkPad_T61p

Chris
(another T61p owner)