FC12 Upgrade - Monitor frequency problem

[phh]

Screen illegible after upgrading from DVD FC11 to FC12

Can someone please share with me their xorg.conf for a LG L192WS monitor and Nvidia GeForce8600GT graphics card.

Many thanks

[AdamW]

how do you mean 'illegible'? can you take a picture?

can you try booting with the 'nomodeset' kernel parameter?

[phh]

Hi Adam

Since upgrading to FC12, at boot the process hangs with a screen message that says "out of frequency range". I have edited Xorg.conf to the correct vert and horiz frequencies for my monitor, to no avail.

Now I get a blank(black) screen on startup.. I press enter to get the feedback sound that tells me the cursor is at the password input line. I input my password, and then the boot process completes resulting in a scrambled, multi-colour and illegible screen.

I have checked in the forums and on Google and have tried to edit my xorg.conf to replace the nv (nouveau?) driver with the nvidia one which was working at full resolution under FC11. Still no success.

I thought that if there was someone out there with the same monitor/graphics card combination, their xorg.conf might throw some light on the problem.

Thank you for your interest in my problem

Regards

Paul

[AdamW]

if you have an xorg.conf that specifies 'nv', can you try changing it to specify 'nouveau', or just move it out of the way entirely?

nv is the old NVIDIA-provided 'open' driver, we don't really maintain or support it any more. We intend you to use the 'nouveau' driver, if you want to go with an open driver.

[phh]

Hi Adam

Made the change to xorg.conf. Driver is now "nouveau"

Now boot hangs altogether - black screen, blinking cursor.

Did FDISK - output below... Do I now have a problem with a partition corruption?

DEVICE Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 26 3041 243991201 8e Linux

Many thanks again

Paul

[AdamW]

can you post the whole xorg.conf you're using, and try booting without one entirely (just rename it temporarily)? Thanks.

No, I wouldn't worry about that fdisk output, it's pretty common and doesn't indicate anything terrible, usually.