On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) My first problem was that I was using what I thought was an install DVD, but turned out to be a live DVD. Also, these machines really are 64-bit machines; I was trying to install the i386 version (my understanding is that this should be possible but it isn't the best choice for these systems). The install DVD would boot fine and run through the install process, but the system would not boot graphically after the install, even using "nomodeset". What I had to do was boot non-graphically, install the NVIDIA driver, modify grub.conf to specify "rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset", and then finally I could boot into the graphical login screen and everything mostly works. At some point I managed to totally bork the system where many services (including syslog) failed to start. This was immediately after I ran all 500 or so updates, but I had been making other changes as well so I'm not sure what really happened. I ended up doing a reinstall, this time specifying the Fedora and Fedora Update repositories. This produced a working system with all updates already in place. I say "mostly works" because I have not been able to get the screen to replicate on both the laptop display and the external monitor (NVIDIA calls this "TwinView" in one place in nvidia-settings, and "clones" in another). I fiddled with the nvidia-settings for quite a while and could never get this to work. On my previous Dell Latitude D520 laptop, it was possible to get the screens to replicate with the resolution of the laptop screen (1024x768). This problem could well be due to the fact that the resolution of this display is 1440x990, which may not be natively supported by either of the external monitors I have tried to use. At some point I will try reducing the laptop display resolution to 1024x768 and seeing if it will replicate the screens then (I probably wouldn't choose to use it in that mode but it would be interesting to know if it would work, could be useful for presentations with projectors). Right now it does work with separate screens, but this mode requires me to be able to see the laptop display, as that is the only place that I can start applications (I have yet to figure out how to create a GNOME panel on the external monitor X screen), Once started, the window can be dragged over to the external monitor screen. This works, but it's painful to use, at least for me. As an aside, the screens do replicate just fine under Windows 7. I suspect the Dell-provided W7 driver is doing some scaling for the external display that the nvidia Linux driver doesn't. --Greg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
