Hi All,

I'm a relative newbie to linux and a complete newbie to installing it... So please forgive me if the question is a dumb one

I've just installed FC7 on a system with the following harware:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP2400+
ChipSet: Nforce2
Gfx Card: Radeon9200 Pro
RAM: 1Gb

For some reason the machine will not get past the agpgart load where it identifies the chipset and hangs. I presume that this is because it's loading hte standard agpgart rather than the nvidia drivers. I read somewhere that the nvidia drivers to access the agp slot (nvgart, I think?) are shipped with the distro, but that some setting must be changed to activate them. I have no clue where I would do this or how and what to change.

If someone could give me a nudge in the right direction I would be extremely grateful ( and relieved!)

Thanks in Advance!

Keith

Since nobody else is coming forth...

Long-long-long shot: Toggle the ACPI-settings in your BIOS. Maybe that will change things.

Do you have a live CD handy (Knoppix, SuSE, ...)? Can those boot with the original settings or do you get different errors?

Hi JZL...

Thanks for coming back to me.

After much reading and a little help from a friend I found a solution yesterday.

The problem appeared to be that when the kernel was booting it was calling the standard agpgart driver, which won't drive the agp slot on the nForce2 board.

Here's the solution we found:

1. boot the system from the install DVD in Rescue mode.
2. edit the grub.conf file adding agp=off to the lines that call the kernel.
3. e voila! the system boots. No full agp support at this stage. For me that's not a problem as the system is only going to be accessed through vnc or something similar.

I would guess that the next stage would be to install the correct nVidia drivers, but I haven't gone down that route.

I hope that this solution helps someone else in a similar predicament.

Cheers

Keith

Extra Kudos for a LQ newbie who comes back with a solution in his second post. Welcome, and a long, productive and happy stay.