Boot with Basic Video Drivers

[solo2101]

The title says it all....
I want to boot f17 but my system hangs randomly if I boot with the nouveau driver or what ever is in the live-cd... I think this has to do with the nvidia card...
I look online and for the life of me I could not find any answers...

anyone knows?

[ozjd]

The nouveau drivers work well with many cards but not so well with others. I hve 2 systems with nvidia cards and one works fine with nouveau but the other needs the nvidia drivers.

Have you tried the nvidia drivers, see http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280750? Use the akmod option as that saves you problems with kernel updates.

If you are booting from the live c and haven't installed it, there is a boot option for basic drivers. These often are needed for the live cd but not for installed systems.

[george_toolan]

What kind of GPU do you have?

Try http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...nstallation.29

[secipolla]

If you can edit the boot line on the live-CD (usually by pressing 'Tab' with the line selected), you could try appending nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the 'linux' line.

[solo2101]

my solution... was a little weird...

I boot in text mode...
did a "yum update"
turn off the monitor... (dont know if this actually help)
came back a few minutes later... when i figure it was done...
reboot the computer.... and the problem is no longer there...

hehe