I am rather new to linux and a friend of mine suggested that I try the new Fedora Core 5 that just came out this week. I downloaded the DVD installation, and booted from it. It detected most of my hardware okay, but I believe it may have detected the video card incorrectly. I have an Nvidia Geforce 6800 GS series card. After I boot and check the integrity of the disk (or skip) it tries to load anaconda, but as soon as the installer comes up all I see is vertical bars or blocks and that's it. When it detects my video card it detects it as NV, I'm sure this problem has been told a million times, and I have seen it in other places, but most of the time I have seen it as upgrade issues.

If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. As stated I'm new and I don't know what I would need to do to get things working. Do I have to do a text based install and then modify a file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely

TriSight

Has anyone else had this problem? Or know of how to fix it?

force the vga drivers or try text mode install. nv drivers may not work so u may have to use the vga drivers untill you can install nvidia's drivers from nvidia.

Yah I had considered doing a text install.. and then going in and configuring X after the fact.. just really wanted to avoid that.

How do you force the VGA drivers?

I'd love to know how to force a VGA install. Having the same problem using an nV 7800 GT with a 20" WS LCD.

I'd use the text mode installer, which in itself is not a problem, but you can't edit Logical Volumes with the text mode install.

Okay. I have to say sorry for wasting your time.. but I'm such a noob. I was explaining the problem I was having to a friend and he took a look for me.. it turns out that I wasn't aware that certain distros of linux will cause one of your monitors to have odd freaky characters while the other monitor looks fine.. I had no idea.. but upon switching my monitor (as I only have one at the moment) over to the other monitor port, it worked fine.

You should also check for nVidia driver problems. The 1.2054 kernel is configured to reject "tainted" (i.e., proprietary) drivers, and you can't install the nVidia drivers without a lot of work. (The 1.2069 kernel will probably not have the problem.)

Although it isn't mentioned on the Fedora install instructions, a bit of Googling and I found this:

linux vesa

Bingo! Anaconda loads properly (no corrupted display), and I can now play with the logical volumes Fedora likes so much

Of course now I've got to install the nVidia drivers, which is going to be the hard part

update to the new kernel before installing nvidia drivers.