Hello,

I have some problem with the graphics driver (nvidia from livna), which seems to be starting "too late". When The startup screen is supposed to show up the screen complains of wrong frequencies. Then the computer then either freezes or continues to the login screen when the nvidia logo shows up and everything works fine. So my question is, how do I disable the grapics during the startup period? Offcourse it would be preferable if I instead can make it work.

Any idears?

So the startup screen when Fedora is booting up prior to login screen? You can comment that out in /etc/rc.sysinit on line 346.
Should look like this
# Start the graphical boot, if necessary; /usr may not be mounted yet, so we
# may have to do this again after mounting
346:RHGB_STARTED=0
347:mount -n /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
348:[ -n "$SELINUX_STATE" ] && restorecon /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
349:if strstr "$cmdline" rhgb && ! strstr "$cmdline" early-login && [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" -a "$GRAPHICAL" = "yes" -a -x /usr/bin/rhgb ]; then
350: ( . /etc/sysconfig/i18n 2>/dev/null ; /usr/bin/rhgb )
351: RHGB_STARTED=1
352:fi

So just taking a guess you could comment out line 350 & 351 and put in it's place this -> echo "Disabled graphical boot".
I've added the line numbers on the left just to make it easier on you, you won't see these when you open the file of course.
If you're using "vi" to open the file, once open type :350 and hit enter and it will take you to line 350
So like this
# Start the graphical boot, if necessary; /usr may not be mounted yet, so we
# may have to do this again after mounting
346:RHGB_STARTED=0
347:mount -n /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
348:[ -n "$SELINUX_STATE" ] && restorecon /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
349:if strstr "$cmdline" rhgb && ! strstr "$cmdline" early-login && [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" -a "$GRAPHICAL" = "yes" -a -x /usr/bin/rhgb ]; then
350: echo "Disabled graphical boot"
351: #( . /etc/sysconfig/i18n 2>/dev/null ; /usr/bin/rhgb )
352: #RHGB_STARTED=1
353:fi

Thanks for the reply. I will try this at once. Do you (or anyone else) have any idear how to get the graphical bootup to work? It would be so much nicer

Thanks,

Hi again,

The "fix" you describe sadly doesn't work. The message shows up like seven or 8 green "OKs" before the screen frequency goes haywire. Is there anywhere later in the file you would suggest to write something similar? Are you sure it won't screw up the bootup totally?

I'm really thankful for you efforts!

Try removing the rhgb parameter from the kernel line in your grub.conf file. That will prevent the blue splashscreen background for GRUB menu and the blue progress bar screen. But the log in screen will still be the graphical log in. Maybe that will help.

Offcourse!! That should really do the trick! I can't wait to get home and try it.

I actually think that is how I solved the problem years ago. Talking about re-inventing the wheel

Thanks in advance (knock on wood)