vito

See: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-57445.html for a solution Vito Di Blas

Dear Friends, now I am trying to install Fedora4 but anaconda stops very soon. My Hardware: Dell Dimension 8400 Chipset Intel 925X Express ICH6-R Intel Pentium 4 540 HT 3.20 GHZ 1 GB Memory 1 SATA HardDrive 160 GB 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 My Software: WindowsXP SP2 Fedora FC3 I work satisfactorily with both OSs. (By the way,I installed and re-installed Fedora3 in graphic mode many times: no problem at all) Now I try to install Fedora4. 1. In graphic mode (no options): The installer tells me: Probing video card: NVIDIA Unknown (generic) (see below ***) Probing for monitor type: Unknown monitor Probing for mouse type: Generic 3 buttons mouse (PS/2) Attempting to start native X server Waiting for X server to start ... 1..2.. At this point the screen goes blank (i.e. black) for about 10 seconds then a bad video appears (pale colors, reticular), then a big "Fedora" title over it, then all stops and hangs 2. Then I tried booting "linux text" The installation went well, all packages were installed (everything), but when tried to reboot, again the screen got lost and the system stopped 3. I tried "linux resolution=xxxxx" but the results were similar to those of case 1 above 4. Unsuccessful also the attempts "linux noprobe" "linux nofb nousb" I bought two different magazines with two different Fedora 4 DVDs: both show the same behaviour. What can I do? I didn't find in the Web (until now) a complaint about a problem like this. Vito Di Blas e-mail: vitodiblas@iol.it (***) Here the installer of Fedora3 writes: Probing video card: VESA driver (generic)

Hi danleff, thanks for your fast reply. I read and tried unsuccessfully the hints of the two articles. The procedure suggested there: Control+Alt+F1 Enter as root Enter telinit 3 (or: init 3) gives the same result on Fedora3/Dimension8400 (i.e. blank screen, 6 lines after hitting enter, shutdown after ControlAltDel) (Note that also the above new procedure works well on RedHat6.2/OldPC instead) Vito Di Blas e-mail: vitodiblas@iol.it

Dear Friends, I am new to this forum (to be true it's the first time that I post a message to a forum) I would like to know your opinion about a behaviour of my Linux System that I don't understand My Hardware: Dell Dimension 8400 Chipset Intel 925X Express ICH6-R Intel Pentium 4 540 HT 3.20 GHZ 1 GB Memory 1 SATA HardDrive 160 GB 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 My Software: WindowsXP SP2 Fedora FC3 I work satisfactorily with both OSs. (I say "satisfactorily" because I could not install the nVidia driver in FC3, but this is a problem we might speak of, in case, later) My current problem is: I boot Fedora (choosing "Combination" in BIOS) I login as "vito" I open an Xterminal I switch to superuser: > su - Password: ********** At the next prompt I write: > telinit 3 in order to switch to text mode and restart as root. At this point I would expect a login prompt, as I was used to in the past with a RedHat6.2 and a Matrox card on an homemade PC. Instead, the screen goes blank (i.e. black) and the system looks idle or stopped (no disk activity). Pressing the "enter" key, the following 6 lines appear on the screen: Starting pcmcia: [OK] Starting irqbalance: [OK] Starting lm_sensors: [OK] Starting automount:No Mountpoints defined [OK] Starting hpoj: [OK] Starting anacron: [OK] with the cursor blinking at the left, under the last line. Again the system appears idle. Pressing CONTROL-ALT-DEL the system closes (several lines with "Shutting" prefix) and shuts down. Is it a bug? Should I do some special setting in the BIOS? I will apppreciate any comment or suggestion. I feel the Dimension8400 (configured as above) oriented mainly to Windows. Am I wrong? Thanks and Greetings Vito e-mail: vitodiblas@iol.it