Fedora Core 12 AGP Card

jviezel · 03-05-2010, 09:29 PM

I recently installed Fedora Core 12 32 bit version on my machine with a an MSI MX4000-T64 video card (nVidia AGP 8x). It seems as if X is not starting and the OS is reverting to text mode after the install is complete.

My system worked fine with Fedora Core 11.

Can someone point me to a list of compatible AGP 8x cards that will work properly with Fedora 12 or a fix that will let me use my existing MSI card?

Simon Bridge · 03-06-2010, 01:25 AM

Are you using the proper driver?

jviezel · 03-06-2010, 09:03 AM

Not sure - is there a way to find out?

Simon Bridge · 03-06-2010, 11:11 PM

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If you are using the binary nvidia driver, this will have entries in it. It will be empty otherwise. Dunno how to force nv or vesa though - without writing a device section.

I guess you can look in lsmod

lsmod | grep vesa
lsmod | grep nv

looking in the xorg log files will tell you, and the syslog too.

It may just be a matter of something like

#yum install kmod-nvidia

http://www.mjmwired.net
... look for the f12 notes.

note: Fedora Core is no more after FC6. After that it is just fedora (note, lower case f).

GoinEasy9 · 03-07-2010, 11:27 AM

To install graphics drivers in Fedora 12 correctly, use the guides and solutions section of fedora forum, it's not as easy as installing kmod-nvidia, especially since nouveau is now tied so closely to the kernel. Link:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

Check to see if your card is supported first, installing then booting to text mode points to your card not being recognized.

jviezel · 03-08-2010, 07:36 PM

Thanks - this looks like it's the correct approach.