Getting video to work with F11 live CD

[vinoman]

What is needed to get F11 live CD to work with a Biostar motherboard w/ Nvidia 7100 onboard video?

What command is needed to get a basic video to come up?

[Hlingler]

Should work out-of-the-box. IIRC, "nouveau" is now the default video driver for NVidia chipsets. If it fails, you could try reverting to driver "nv". Or: install the proprietary "nvidia" driver. See Leigh's How-To in "Guides and How-Tos".

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[Vladi]

Hello!

No 64 bit problem, my guess. Do you have any error message?
Nouveau driver is default, maybe this is the problem.

[Squalphin]

Hmmm, I have a GeForce8400M GS card and I had to add an extra boot parameter to get any video output. I had to add "nouveau.modeset=1". After that the live-cd booted with video. But i don"t know if it will help with your problem.

[vinoman]

So what command do I run?

I tried adding nv after hitting tab and the screen was still black.


My other pc with Fedora 10 has a Geforce 6100 and it was able to boot the live CD, but this one is a problem.


any other boot options?

Last time I installed F10 64 bit last December I used the Install DVD. Is that better for installation than the Live CD?
Maybe it can recognize this video card better?

[minaq]

"nouveau" is now the default video driver for NVidia chipsets. If it fails, you could try reverting to driver "nv"

How to do this while booting Fedora-11-x86_64-Live?

[Hlingler]

How to do this while booting Fedora-11-x86_64-Live?Append to kernel boot line the parameter:
... xdriver=nv

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[vinoman]

Append to kernel boot line the parameter:
... xdriver=nv

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that doesn't work either. I guesss I can't install Fedora on a Biostar motherboard.

Maybe one day someone will come up with the correct command for a Biostar board.

Maybe I'll try the install DVD.

[Hlingler]

You mean: it fails to yield a working GUI, not that it's a bad command/syntax, right?

Well, poo. I don't know what else to suggest at this point. Sorry.

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[vinoman]

You mean: it fails to yield a working GUI, not that it's a bad command/syntax, right?

Well, poo. I don't know what else to suggest at this point. Sorry.

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Yes, no video after initial boot. it gets to a cursor and just blinks. I've had trouble with other distros on this Biostar board. But Mandriva 2009.1, Ubuntu 9.04 and Dreamlinux 3.5 all work fine on this PC. On my other PC which runs Fedora 10 64bit, w/ Asus board the F11 live CD works fine.

There must be a video command that will make the live CD work w/ Biostar board.

I'm downloading the F11 Install DVD. Sometime soon I'll try that one out.

[minaq]

[..]I've had trouble with other distros on this Biostar board. [..]

I suppose it's not mainboard that causes the problem in F11, but GeForce 7 series. I have MSI P965 (on ICH8 chipset) and have the same problem. I tried applying bootparam xdriver=nv (on liveDVD) but with no success. F11 uses new nVidia driver (nouveau), it might not work well with GF7. I did NOT have that problem with earlier Fedoras using nv driver.

Could you check at what point the boot freezes in your case? Remove bootparam quiet and paste here the last line please (in my case it loads vmlinuz and initrd, probes EDD and stops with flashing cursor).

[vinoman]

I suppose it's not mainboard that causes the problem in F11, but GeForce 7 series. I have MSI P965 (on ICH8 chipset) and have the same problem. I tried applying bootparam xdriver=nv (on liveDVD) but with no success. F11 uses new nVidia driver (nouveau), it might not work well with GF7. I did NOT have that problem with earlier Fedoras using nv driver.

Could you check at what point the boot freezes in your case? Remove bootparam quiet and paste here the last line please (in my case it loads vmlinuz and initrd, probes EDD and stops with flashing cursor).

when I erase the 'quiet' it goes too fast at the end to write done any line. it then goes to the bar that goes across and says Fedora 11

maybe there is some other reports about GeForce 7 problems.
may have to forget about installing F11 on that pc :(

[Hlingler]

it then goes to the bar that goes across and says Fedora 11Hit <ESCAPE> key, should go into text mode so you can see what's happening.

Must be some problem with both drivers "nv" and "nouveau" and certain NVidia chipsets.

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[MrMr]

Hit <ESCAPE> key, should go into text mode so you can see what's happening.

Must be some problem with both drivers "nv" and "nouveau" and certain NVidia chipsets.

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I don't think it's NVidia's fault (for once ;) ). I'm seeing the same problem with another Intel-ICH8 board and an 8600M GT on my laptop.
Fedora 7, 8 and 10 work (with either nv or nvidia's proprietary drivers). The same nvidia drivers (recent *.180.* or *.185* releases) have errors about an unsupported card on F11.
Looks like something at the pci level is already botched.

[vinoman]

I don't think it's NVidia's fault (for once ;) ). I'm seeing the same problem with another Intel-ICH8 board and an 8600M GT on my laptop.
Fedora 7, 8 and 10 work (with either nv or nvidia's proprietary drivers). The same nvidia drivers (recent *.180.* or *.185* releases) have errors about an unsupported card on F11.
Looks like something at the pci level is already botched.

So is there any fix at all?

Now I know I can't use Fedora 11 on this biostar board PC.

I'm very happy with Fedora 10 on my asus board PC. I'll wait untill Fedora 12 comes out in November. Maybe by then fedora will fix their video problem. ;)

[MrMr]

I've just managed to get F11 to boot the ICH8 machine (without acpi=off etc...) from the livecd.

I switched to the x86_64 version this time. (My previous attempts were with all 32bit & PAE). This seems work for the graphics, and the SMT support, but not for the wireless (iwlagn)

The F10 x86_64 version also works, with wireless (iwlagn).

[vinoman]

I solved the problem by using the F11 install DVD. it was able to see my video and after installing the rpmfusion free and nonfree downloads and installing nvidia 173xx driver, all is working fine :)

Problem solved.

[fedquake]

No luck here, with a GeForce 7100.
I get a blank screen + cursor.
Nouveau.noagp=1 and nouveau.modeset=1 do not work.

(By the way, the 32bit live cd does work, and the 64bit doesn't.)

Is there no solution yet?