Blank Screen after logon count down - Fedora 13

[johnsonm8741]

Hi all - I just tried to install Fedora 13 but after the log on count down I just get a blank screen - nothing else. The disk is still loading but no screen action at all. My graphics card is Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE.
Fedora 12 works fine. Any suggestions?

[CSchwangler]

Can you get to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login as root and then check the log files in /var/log?

[leigh123linux]

I believe there is a novueau driver problem with 6100 series cards, try installing the nvidia driver.

[johnsonm8741]

leigh123linux,

how would I install the driver - just having a blank screen?
thanks

---------- Post added at 09:20 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:35 AM CDT ----------

Ok, I did Ctrl+Alt+F2 and got to the Boot menu. I tabbed on Boot and the boot sequence came up - I changed "quiet" to "nomodeset" and the live cd booted up just fine. Here's the /var/log:

%G%G Welcome to Fedora
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Starting udev: %Gudevd-work[635]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit with status 0x000b


udevd-work[633]: '/usr/bin/vmmouse_detect' unexpected exit with status 0x000b


[ OK ]

Setting hostname localhost.localdomain: [ OK ]

Setting up Logical Volume Management: No volume groups found
[ OK ]

Checking filesystems
[ OK ]

Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]

Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]

Entering non-interactive startup
Enabling swap partition /dev/sda5 [ OK ]

Adding live user [ OK ]

ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]

iptables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]

Starting auditd: [ OK ]

Starting portreserve: [ OK ]

Starting system logger: [ OK ]

Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: [ OK ]

Starting irqbalance: [ OK ]

Starting system message bus: [ OK ]

Setting network parameters... [ OK ]

Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]

Starting Avahi daemon... [ OK ]

Starting cups: [ OK ]

Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]

Starting acpi daemon: [ OK ]

Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ]

Retrigger failed udev events[ OK ]

Adding udev persistent rules[ OK ]

Enabling Bluetooth devices:
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]

Starting sm-client: [ OK ]

Starting abrt daemon: [ OK ]

If I install after using the "nomodeset" , after rebooting I believe it will just be a blank screen unless I alter something - correct?

thanks

[ajcuda]

johnsonm8741,
You can install the nvidia driver by following leigh123linux instructions. You will probably have to print them out and type them in manually on the command line after Ctrl-Alt-F2...as long as your internet connection works. saved my butt countless times.

*Edit - did you try installing with the Basic Video driver option?

[johnsonm8741]

Thanks, but I think this looks over my head.... I have do idea how to do this. Fedora 13 is not installed - it's just the live cd - I just don't understand how to do it looking at those instructions...

---------- Post added at 12:05 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 11:46 AM CDT ----------

Well, I'll try - nothing to lose I guess....
Let you know what happens....

thanks

[Wayne]

On both the KDE and Gnome LiveCDs I have the same problem. After Grub loads and the machine starts to boot the screen loses its signal and goes blank. I can see the CDs booting and get the start-up sound but that's all she does! nVidia GForce 9500.

Was thinking of trying Fedora again but just don't have the time to f*rt around getting things working when Mint "just works"

[johnsonm8741]

Wow, this is a big problem for us - management is really upset... after all this time and support to fedora - this happens without any simple workaround.... now I have to migrate 12 machines to a different OS... what's fedora thinking...

two steps backwards....

[leigh123linux]

You make it sound like a major issue, it is so simple to workaround I didn't think I needed to post.

Get the DVD and do a text install, after installation install the nvidia driver.

What is so hard? :confused:


I believe you can use boot options for the livecd to specify video driver

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/12/html/Installation_Guide/sn-bootoptions-hardware.html

[AdamW]

'basic graphics installation' should also work, it will use the vesa driver.

Can you please file a bug for the problem with the nouveau driver? Thanks.

(If you could test the alpha, beta or RC releases with a live image, for future Fedoras, that would help us to avoid problems like this; it's hard for us to fix a broken card for the final release if we don't know it's broken until the release is out :<)

[leigh123linux]

'basic graphics installation' should also work, it will use the vesa driver.

Can you please file a bug for the problem with the nouveau driver? Thanks.

(If you could test the alpha, beta or RC releases with a live image, for future Fedoras, that would help us to avoid problems like this; it's hard for us to fix a broken card for the final release if we don't know it's broken until the release is out :<)


I believe this is issue is already reported.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578965

[AdamW]

possibly. it may not be the same bug, though. even though 6100 and 6150 are similar, they're still not the same. Ben would be the one who'd know for sure, given the logs.