On 26 April 2010 06:46, badmagic badmagic@foo-unix.org wrote:

Hi all (figured out the problem),

I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known.

Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card - can't remember specifics.

I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail.

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail.

I am not sure but your card is probably not supported by the open source nouveau drivers. Have you tried using the proprietary drivers packaged by rpmfusion [http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia%5D? If not you could give that a shot. I would go about it like this,

1. Boot to runlevel 3 2. use yum to install rpmfusion free and non-free repo 3. now use yum to install the nvidia proprietary drivers 4. reboot

My specs are as follows:

ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard 4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough)

Nice rig ;)

That's about all

GL

Regards, Steve Laurie

On 27/04/2010 2:00 AM, Michael Miles wrote:

On 04/26/2010 07:27 AM, suvayu ali wrote:

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On 26 April 2010 06:46, badmagicbadmagic@foo-unix.org wrote:

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Hi all (figured out the problem),

I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known.

Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card - can't remember specifics.

I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail.

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail.

I am not sure but your card is probably not supported by the open source nouveau drivers. Have you tried using the proprietary drivers packaged by rpmfusion [http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia%5D? If not you could give that a shot. I would go about it like this,

1. Boot to runlevel 3
2. use yum to install rpmfusion free and non-free repo
3. now use yum to install the nvidia proprietary drivers
4. reboot

...

My specs are as follows:

ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard 4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough)

Nice rig ;)

...

That's about all

GL

...

Regards, Steve Laurie

You must also blacklist nouveau in the grub config

There is a complete write up in the above RPMFUSION HOWTO

Hi all,

Still no success on the graphics. I get the graphical screen come up with the word Fedora and 1 dot under the F (are the number of dots some kind of indication of progress? Not sure but I thoough it might be a clue).

at this point, the mouse still works and the keyboard still has power but it's as though the keyboard doesn't work. Not even the caps lock, number lock etc. lights change when I press the associated buttons. Needless to say Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.

I am still trying to do what has already been suggested but in the mean time, if someone could take a look at my dmesg (attached), I'd appreciate it.

Also, while I was in runlevel 3, I created an xorg.conf.new file and have also attached that. Perhaps it can give some clues as to what's going on.

Thanks, Steve Laurie

On 04/30/2010 06:17 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:

On Friday 30 April 2010 05:49 AM, badmagic wrote:

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On 27/04/2010 2:00 AM, Michael Miles wrote:

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On 04/26/2010 07:27 AM, suvayu ali wrote:

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On 26 April 2010 06:46, badmagicbadmagic@foo-unix.org wrote:

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Hi all (figured out the problem),

I've had trouble installing Fedora for the last few releases. I don't have it installed at the moment so I can't offer much help BUT as I'm certain my prob relates to my EVGA GTX 295 Co-Op Edition graphics card and these are quite common cards, I'm sure the fix is quite widely known.

Everything installs/boots okay until I get to the bit where I need to log in. I get the GDM graphical login screen but the mouse and keyboard seem to stop working. If I change to terminal view (Ctrl Alt F2 for memory) I can still type DMESG shows problems with the graphics card - can't remember specifics.

I tried changing the xorg.conf to settings I know worked under other distros/BSD/Solaris (using xorg) to no avail.

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Is there some GRUB switch I can throw in there that'll work - I tried some to no avail.

I am not sure but your card is probably not supported by the open source nouveau drivers. Have you tried using the proprietary drivers packaged by rpmfusion [http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia%5D? If not you could give that a shot. I would go about it like this,

1. Boot to runlevel 3
2. use yum to install rpmfusion free and non-free repo
3. now use yum to install the nvidia proprietary drivers
4. reboot

...

My specs are as follows:

ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard 4GB Kingston (compatible with mobo) RAM EVGA GTX 295 co-op edition graphics card Corsair HX 1000W (more than enough)

Nice rig ;)

...

That's about all

GL

...

Regards, Steve Laurie

You must also blacklist nouveau in the grub config

There is a complete write up in the above RPMFUSION HOWTO

Hi all,

Still no success on the graphics. I get the graphical screen come up with the word Fedora and 1 dot under the F (are the number of dots some kind of indication of progress? Not sure but I thoough it might be a clue).

at this point, the mouse still works and the keyboard still has power but it's as though the keyboard doesn't work. Not even the caps lock, number lock etc. lights change when I press the associated buttons. Needless to say Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.

I am still trying to do what has already been suggested but in the mean time, if someone could take a look at my dmesg (attached), I'd appreciate it.

I see that you are booting from the KDE LiveCD. So when you boot, it uses the nouveau driver. But wasn't that the problem in the first place?

You can try a text install and then boot to runlevel 3 and edit grub.conf to include the blacklist nouveau option and install the rpmfusion repo and the proprietary NVidia drivers?

A few things of note here,

1. If you need custom partitioning, you will have to boot with a LiveCD

(with a supported graphics driver, so maybe an older version or use the mesa driver or maybe any text based livecd) and partition according to your needs) 2. Once you have everything up and running don't forget to make sure firstboot is run (if it doesn't run by itself) 3. I am assuming the LiveCD can install in text mode (my memory is hazy about this)

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Also, while I was in runlevel 3, I created an xorg.conf.new file and have also attached that. Perhaps it can give some clues as to what's going on.

Thanks, Steve Laurie

GL

Is your motherboard bios the latest? If not then would be a good idea to flash with latest