Fedora won't start after installing Nvidia driver

Hungry ghost · 02-10-2005, 04:49 PM

Hi. I'm using Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.667). My video card is a GeForce MX440. I started Fedora on runlevel 3 and installed the the commercial nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run), then I started X and everything was fine (I could use 3D applications and X worked fine), but when I boot again Fedora hangs up after message: "Configuring Kernel Parameters". I think it's a problem with the Nvidia driver splash screen that cannot be displayed on the early stage of the initialization. I read nvidia readme and it says one can add the options "NoLogo" "Boolean" on the screen or device sections of the xorg.conf file. I added them, when I installed the driver, but when starting X I received an error message telling me it didn't recognized "NoLogo" (maybe I didn't do it in the right way?). Anyone know how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.

perfect_circle · 02-10-2005, 09:08 PM

try removing the rhgb from the kernel parameters in grub.
This is redhat graphical boot.

perfect_circle · 02-10-2005, 09:12 PM

Quote:

I read nvidia readme and it says one can add the options "NoLogo" "Boolean" on the screen or device sections of the xorg.conf file. I added them, when I installed the driver, but when starting X I received an error message telling me it didn't recognized "NoLogo" (maybe I didn't do it in the right way?).

Boolean means binary (0,1) or (true,false)
You need to add something like
Option "NoLogo" "true"
or
Option "NoLogo" "1"
But i don't think this is the problem. I think the problem is rhgb and it's a common one.

Hungry ghost · 02-11-2005, 10:55 AM

Thank you. I solved the problem by removing the option rhgb on grub and initializating on runlevel 3. Then I did all the steps described here , if it helps someone.