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rweed
2009-01-19, 04:37 PM CST
I put vga=ask on my boot line and it only lists 7 or 8 text modes. It doesn't show me the huge number of modes I see on my laptop.

I have an nVidia 8800 GTS card. I had no issues under F8. Is there a kernel parm I should be using?

tia, Rick
rweed
2009-01-19, 11:50 PM CST
Running vbetest gives me this:

Can't get VESA info (vm86 failure)

What has changed in F10? My impression from other messages is that it's something with the framebuffer.

When I 'insmod nvidiafb', I get this:

insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

EDIT: modprobe nvidiafb was successful in adding the module...should I be using this module? I would have to rebuild the initrd to have it present on startup, right?

Any other ideas?
rweed
2009-01-20, 12:33 AM CST
I have no /dev/fb0 device...
rweed
2009-01-20, 03:48 PM CST
I booted up an F9 live beta disc I had and the graphical boot worked, vbetest showed me all the modes. Tonight, I'm going to grab the F10 live disc and see what happens with that.

I've had some odd things happen before doing a two-version upgrade of Fedora, so maybe that screwed something up.
rweed
2009-01-20, 08:32 PM CST
This is a Fedora 10 issue. Same behavior on Live F10/64-bit. Should I post a bug report?
rweed
2009-01-22, 02:10 PM CST
F9 can detect the VESA modes in my 8800GTS. F10 cannot. I'm suspecting this is a KMS driver issue.
SlowJet
2009-01-22, 02:22 PM CST
I put vga=ask on my boot line and it only lists 7 or 8 text modes. It doesn't show me the huge number of modes I see on my laptop.

I have an nVidia 8800 GTS card. I had no issues under F8. Is there a kernel parm I should be using?

tia, Rick

nomodesetting vga=0x315

There are many posts explaining this and iit is explained in the Fedora documentation.

SJ
rweed
2009-01-24, 05:30 PM CST
[QUOTE=SlowJet;1153360]nomodesetting vga=0x315

There are many posts explaining this and iit is explained in the Fedora documentation./QUOTE]



I tried that already and it doesn't work. vga=ask shows no graphics modes and any attempt to pick one give an error saying no such mode (something to that effect). nomodeset made no difference.

Where is it in the docs? 2.6.2-2.6.4 of the release notes mention those two parameters, but no together and it doesn't mention my problem. There is no user guide yet, so where is it?