F9 install - cant get running

[Mr tim esquire]

Hi all,
I Installed F9 X86-64 on my asus-Athalon dual 64 - NVIDIA GeForce 6100
The Anaconda installer wouldn't display so i installed in text mode which completed sucessfully.

at boot the machine complains my BIOS dosnt have a aperture memory hole and advises me to enable the IOMMU option

then i get:
Starting red hat nash
Unable to access resume device /dev/sdb6

Then all the services start but instead of going into GUI it goes to a command prompt. I can login in but i dont know what to do after that, i want to use X windows!

Any help much appreciated!
tim

P.S i think sdb6 is the swap (part of an extended partition), FC9 is on a primary partition GRUB is in the MBR

[jbixby]

try
init 5

[Mr tim esquire]

as root, init 5 gives me a blank screen
even with patience

[huguley]

Do a yum update. The nv drivers are a bit buggy. I submitted a bug about it and it is fixed a later revision of the nv driver.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446880

[Mr tim esquire]

Unfortunatly i dont think my internet connection is working, when i try
yum update
i get
IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'temporary failure on name resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.

odd thing is it gives the same error when the eNet cable is unplugged so it cant be getting far in the first instance either

any ideas?

[JN4OldSchool]

log in as root. Then do "nano etc/X11/xorg.conf" and change the driver from nv to vesa. This will get you X but you might have to manually input a resolution to get away from 800X600 . This should enable you to fix the network connection so you can install the Livna repo and add the akmod-nvidia packages which will work.

[Mr tim esquire]

old school is the way!
Im using gnome now
thanks!

[Mr tim esquire]

Yeah! im chuffed to have FC9 running
the back and foward buttons on my mouse work for the first time in ages!
nice

[jbixby]

Even with all the fancy front-ends and guis sometimes it is the text mode that fixes the issues. And I find that in a lot of cases the old text mode looks better than the gui, at least you can see more of what is happening.