On Tuesday 24 August 2010 23:00:50 Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > > iommu=soft > > > > will get it going. > > This did not work for me. After it goes through all the daemon startups, > it gives a screen with a lot of crazy colors across the top, and alt-F2 > brings up a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The system will not > respond to the keyboard other than to switch VTs. The only way to get > the system to boot properly to graphical mode, that I have found, is to > use the "nomodeset" boot parameter, but then it won't do anything better > then 800x600. That is exactly my problem. "iommu=soft" did not work "nomodeset" works but I can only get 800x600. > > Even worse, it appears that the latest Linux version of the proprietary > nvidia driver does not support this chip. It is listed as GT218 and not > on the list of supported chips at the Nvidia web site. Trying to use > this driver produces a message in Xorg.0.log that the NVIDIA chip could > not be initialized. > I'm using the nouveau driver but I did try to install the proprietary nVidia one but it wouldn't install so I can confirm that. > Has anyone actually gotten Fedora 13 with X to run properly on one of > these things? Right now mine is a paperweight. I'd try Ubuntu but I have > no reason to expect it would be any better; this doesn't really look > like a Fedora-specific issue, although a workaround might be. > > --Greg I might have a crack at Ubuntu. I'll try anything to get this machine off my hands right now ;-) Thanks, Tony -- 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
