On 07.08.2013 20:30, Les Howell wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 11:04 -0700, Les Howell wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:37 -0700, Les Howell wrote: >>> HELP!!! I downloaded the F19 live Games DVD image, burnt the disk OK, >>> installed OK. Won't boot. Mother board is ASUS UEFI system. Don't get >>> Grubby!! >>> >>> Tried using the firmwire boot option to select the disk, no go. So, >>> what steps should I take to try and find this. I can boot the live DVD >>> OK, so tools are available. How do I get the uefi to boot, and i want >>> to make this system dual boot for windows for games. I know how to set >>> up the grub 2 after the work getting my F17 to work, so once I get >>> grubby up, I should be able to handle the rest. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> The system is an AMD with 6G ram, and nvidia GE FX-5200. When I >> attempted the install of the nvidia drivers using akmod-nvidia, I >> mistyped the command and the numerical description had a space so I got >> bare akmod-nvidia. After several attempts to get to the text prompt, >> and an attempt to get nomodeset into the boot script, I gave up and >> nuked the installation and started over. The system is installing again >> now. >> >> This is the most difficult installation I have yet had with Fedora, >> fraught with issues from not being able to log in, to getting in, but >> getting a blank screen, to having the screen go into spasms of blank >> then slowly rebuilding the favorites sidebar, but with the mouse cursor >> missing or a cursor and no capability to interact, to cursor >> interacting, but giving repetitive screen wipes and rebuilds. >> >> Yeah, I know, ditch the Nvidia card, but my computer bucks are a bit >> short right now. Anyway, I am starting over, and will be sure to use >> the efibootmgr command, and install the correct akmod-nvidia-173xx >> driver. Does anyone have any additional information that might help? >> >> by the way, even after the efibootmgr -c command, I kept getting the >> secure mode disabled message. There is little joy in the house right >> now!! Mama doesn't have her computer, and I am stymied on getting this >> thing up and working. >> >> Any and all help/pointers/etc... appreciated. >> >> I'm posting this message from a computer in another room, so it requires >> that I go back and forth to look things up when the new install won't >> bring up the internet for looking things up, just another aggravation. >> > Sorry to keep this single thread going, but success has reared its > head... My wife bless her, kept the old card I pulled from one of the > grandson's computers. It is a radeon 7470. Put that in and things are > going swimmingly. I like nvidia. I wish they and the linux folks could > work out some way of fully supporting their cards with acceleration and > the whole works, directly. But the Radeon will do the job, so Kudos to > those guys. > > So we can call this solved, at least given a Radeon card. Too bad, > nvidia, thanks for NOT playing. > > lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] Kernel driver in use: nouveau dmesg: nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: NV34 (NV34) nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV30 agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode xrandr: DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm 1920x1080R 59.9*+ glxinfo: name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: GLX version: 1.4 OpenGL vendor string: nouveau OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV34 OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 9.2.0-devel xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing true poma Ref. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
