On Thursday 26 August 2010 18:12:30 Greg Woods wrote: > 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 :-) > Following your suggestions I've also got it working at 1440x900 What I did was booted it non-graphically, did a full update so I had the latest kernel. Install the nVidia driver from the rpmfusion repos yum install akmod-nvidia ran nvidia-xconfigs to generate a new xorg.conf file. Then it worked. Thank You, The laptop is gone out my door now to the lecturer who owns it. Why didn't he but a E6510 like the rest of us ;-) Tony > 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
