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FC9 With Nvidia 7100gs Video Mode Not Supported
Allright... I just installed FC9 x86 64 bit onto my computer. My computer specs are as follows.
AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ (3.22ghz) 3 Gigs DDR. 180GB HDD Nvidia Geforce 7100GS 17" Samsung LCD DVD Writer Yada Yada Yada.... Well I did a dual boot with FC9 and XP and the installation went fine. Now when I boot the system with fedora, I get an error on my monitor that says video mode not supported. I can use ctrl+alt+f2 and get in to the command line no problem, but the Xwindow does not want to load. The installation never asked me to pick a driver or anything so I assumed that Anaconda automatically found a compatible one. Guess not.... Anyone have any suggestion on how I can fix this. I am new to Linux, but I am also in my first semester of College for Network Administration and fedora is what we are studying. So I am somewhat fluent in the command line. |
Hmm you might try installing the proprietary Linux NVidia driver?
If you had a 32 bit system that would (I guess) get pretty close to solving your problem. But I suspect that this has to do with specifically the fact that you are on a 64 bit architecture... Not sure, if 32 / 64 bittedness affects the issue, if you can even get a 64bit NVidia driver for X... |
Solved It!
Actually I was searching google.com/linux (love it!) and I found the issue. It had nothing to do with it being a 64 bit architecture. During installation Anaconda didn't give me the option to select a video driver, it just used one automatically. The driver it used automatically was "vesa" which was for vesa-compatible video cards.
What I did was I used the command line (ctrl+alt+f2) and made my way to /etc/x11/xorg.conf. I edited xorg.conf with VI and changed the driver from "vesa" to "nv". It was as simple as that. Fedora selected the wrong driver by default. Hope this helps anyone else with this problem. As a matter of fact, this issue seems to happen with alot of Nvidia drivers from what I hear. For those who are new to linux (like me), I will give you step by step instructions on how to do this. Punch in ctrl+alt+f2 to enter the command line. It will probably ask you to log in. Make sure you log in as root. At the command line type cd / to change to the root directory. Then type cd /etc/X11 to change to the directory of the conf file. Type vi xorg.conf and press enter. Then press the "i" key to enter insert mode. Use the arrow keys to move down to where the driver selected is "vesa". Change "vesa" to "nv". Then press the escape key and press shift+: type in "wq" minus the quotes which WRITES your changes to xorg.conf and QUITS vi. Then you should be back at the command line. Type "cat xorg.conf" minus the quotes to make sure that the changes you made were saved. Restart the computer and all should be fine. If that doesnt work repost to this thread and maybe someone else will have a different soulution, because I sure as heck don't! Lol. |
Ok, I stand corrected. I know nothing about the 64 bit side (a bit convenient to blame the unknown when you encounter something... erm... unknown! :)
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you do know that the " nv " driver is 2d only install the rpmfusion repo and install the kmod-nvidia driver or the akmod-nvidia driver http://rpmfusion.org/
yum install kmod-nvidia |
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