No screen from Live-CD Fedora-10

[micder]

Got NVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache videocard.
The free nv driver does not work with this card.
Tried to get a screen with boot param: xdriver=vesa.
Does not work: gives a black or blue screen too.
Any ideas to start the live cd with vesa?

[lauwers]

What do you mean by not working ?
Use the same video card no problem although it is directly on my MOBO
My Fedora version is the X86_64

[micder]

Booting goes to 100% (bar at screen bottom) and ends in a blue screen.
All distros trying to use the nv driver end this way on my computer.
Installed Fedora-9 from a DVD in text mode.
Had to change xorg.conf to vesa in order to start X.
Installed the prop. nvidia driver lateron.
Fedora version is x86_32.

Thank you

[lauwers]

Just to be sure that it is the nvidia driver what caused the problem ,because as already stated I
use the same nvidia card from Fedora 8 to 10
And Fedora 8 ,9 was the 32 bits version.
Be so kind to start the cd again at the beginning of the BAR at bottom press the escape button ,
it will bring in the verbose mode.
See if it comes with error message.
BTW did you do a media check with the live CD after burning

[micder]

The verbose mode goes well.
After starting cups the screen gets garbled and useless.
Booting my laptop (ati video) with the same disk is successfull: right screen resolution.
As said before: My videocard does not accept nv!!
There must be a way to start X with vesa
Can't imagine that this is impossible with Fedora

[adyroman]

I have the same problem and I tried 2 different (Nvidia) video cards. Was this problem ever solved?...

[lauwers]

I have the same problem and I tried 2 different (Nvidia) video cards. Was this problem ever solved?...

AS I stated before I use the same video card from F 8 it went well.
But something else what kind of monitor do you both use mine is a Acer LCD 17 inch

[micder]

lauwers said

AS I stated before I use the same video card

I'm not so sure if we have the exact same card.
I got mine packaged by XFX

However with all Live-CD's I have used up to now, it was possible to force X start with vesa.
With that boot param Mepis, Ubuntu, Mandriva etc startup successfully.

[lauwers]

To make it easy to compare the command lspci said about the graphic card
Nvidia Corporation NV44 Geforce 6200 TurboCache

[adyroman]

I think I may have a defective mobo/AGP slot. The problem appears sporadically, and the system seems to be running just fine otherwise - I can login remotely with ssh - except that it just doesn't show any meaningful images on screen (the screen is filled with rectangular blocks (text-mode character size) of various colors).

[lauwers]

I think I may have a defective mobo/AGP slot. The problem appears sporadically, and the system seems to be running just fine otherwise - I can login remotely with ssh - except that it just doesn't show any meaningful images on screen (the screen is filled with rectangular blocks (text-mode character size) of various colors).

Are you sure that is a AGP slot ?
I know that you can still buy computers with AGP but mostly now it is PCI.
Which type of monitor do you use ?

[adyroman]

I have an Asrock mobo with dual AGP - PCI Express video slots (alive-dual esata2). I use an AGP video card. I will probably borrow a PCI Express video card to see if the problem is related to the AGP slot or there's something else wrong with the mobo.

[vifa84]

I have the same problem. I am trying to just install a fresh fedora 10 version on a box with fc5 installed already and after the bar at the bottom, it brings up the blue splash screen and just hangs????

[adyroman]

Further investigations seem to indicate the problem may be only related to the analog port of the video card (or monitor)...

[h.m.j.k]

I have a similar problem with an nvidia card and Fedora Core 10 64-bit live-cd.

If the computer does not hang (mine doesn't), it's possible to switch to another terminal (ctrl+alt+F2). Login as root, and then

X -configure

And then copy the file produced

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And then run

startx

Gnome works fine here. Instead, my installation just hung at around 50%.

I come from Gentoo and wanted to try Fedora once again. But my impression of this live-cd is not very good. The entire system seems buggy, not in one way, but in many ways.