HyperD Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I've dual booted windows with fedora 10, but opted to install the GRUB loader on the fedora partition, and defaulted to loading windows. My problem is that I don't quite know how to load the fedora partition because it's going straight to windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 You'll need to hit Esc as it loads, this ought drop you into the grub menu, from there you can select fedora. Once your in Linux you'll want to edit /boot/menu.list and add a default timeout. timeout=5 This will ensure the grub menu is diplayed for 5 seconds on boot. You can also change the default OS. Take a look at man grub for more info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 I can only seem to enter the windows boot manager with the OS and the diagnostic thing. the other options I have are BIOS and Boot order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 Okay, I've tried a reinstall, put grub on the MBR, but it seems I don't have a GUI. I've tried running the "gdm" command, but I got a "no screens" error. My graphics chipset is GeForce 7150M, which I've read should worrk. Any reason why this or the actual installer won't default to GUI? HP Pavilion dv6500 AMD Athlon 64 X2 2GB RAM Nvidia GeForce 7150M I'm using the x86 DVD, forgot my CPU was actually 64-bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Have you tried startx? (I'm not a fedora user sorry). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 when I run the install anaconda came up with a X not found error. When I ran startx, the no screens error came up. When I ran gdm, I get a "maximum number of X instance failures reached" type error. I hooked up ethernet and updated before this. my initid is 5. I have no /boot/menu.list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I have no /boot/menu.list Sometimes you'd need to mount the partition to /boot Anyway, sounds to me like there is no driver installed for your card. Can you see the relevent driver in.... modprobe -l ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 I ran lspci found nVidia GeForce 7150M VGA Compatible controller. what should I be piping through modprobe? I get tons of pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 modprobe -l | grep nvidia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 28, 2008 Author Share Posted November 28, 2008 results are: /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko and ............/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted November 29, 2008 Author Share Posted November 29, 2008 startx gives me: (EE) unable to locate/open configuration (EE) open /dev/fb0 no such file or directory (EE) no devices detected fatal server error - no screens found gdm says: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached. I tried following the gentoo.org instructions for setting up X, and the only commands I could get to not throw an error were: source /etc/profile and X -configure. I then tested the new configure file X generated using: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new and a grey screen comes up, where it seems to lock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Sounds like your driver isn't getting along well with your hardware. Could we possibly see your xorg.conf ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serverman Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 fedora has a nice little program called yum use it to download the legacy NV drivers that should fix it. freshrpms should have your drivers on it. it also should configure your xorg.conf for you once it installs. also can use rpmfusion its better 2 of the 3rd party rpms in one. oh and here read this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 Okay, I'll try that. In the meantime, here's my xorg.config.new On the plus side, figuring out how to get it on a removable drive was a challenge, but after pounding away at it and a bit of manual reading, I now understand mounting and the basics of the fstab. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d" FontPath "built-ins" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>] #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>] #Option "FPTweak" # <i> #Option "CBLocation" # <str> #Option "CBSize" # <i> #Option "Randr12" # [<bool>] #Option "ScalingMode" # <str> #Option "PrepareFinishAccess" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "nouveau" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7150M" BusID "PCI:0:18:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 'Driver' should be nvidia not nouveau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 So how do I fix that, should I download the proprietary driver and itstall that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperD Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 got it. works perfectly now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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