gnome problem in fedora 7

Antimodes · 01-05-2008, 03:40 AM

Hey I'm a Linux newbie, doing my first install. I have a nvidia geforce 6800 graphics card. I had to boot into the text mode, because in GUI mode my screen went black. I made sure I selected gnome to be installed. After the install I was sent to a CLI where I entered "gmdsetup". This wouldn't run. How can I get into a GUI from the command line?

Person_1873 · 01-05-2008, 04:19 AM

type gdm after you login, this will bring you to a graphical login screen, post back once you get into gnome and i'll teach you how to make it come up as default

Antimodes · 01-05-2008, 11:50 PM

After that I get the can't display this video error...

Person_1873 · 01-06-2008, 08:27 AM

can you tell me the exact error?

Antimodes · 01-06-2008, 07:08 PM

my monitor just goes black with the only thing displayed on it being "Can't Display This Video Mode". I then have to ctrl-alt-F6 to get back to the command line where I can do anything. I took a look at my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, not noticing any info on my monitor refresh rate. Also the only info on my graphics card driver is nv...is that normal?

Person_1873 · 01-06-2008, 10:24 PM

yea thats the open source nvidia driver, it's not supported by nvidia though, maybe if you istall the propietry drivers...

Code:

# yum install -y nvidia-glx