On Tuesday 24 August 2010 23:00:50 Greg Woods wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
> iommu=soft
>
> will get it going.
This did not work for me. After it goes through all the daemon startups,
it gives a screen with a lot of crazy colors across the top, and alt-F2
brings up a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The system will not
respond to the keyboard other than to switch VTs. The only way to get
the system to boot properly to graphical mode, that I have found, is to
use the "nomodeset" boot parameter, but then it won't do anything better
then 800x600.
That is exactly my problem. "iommu=soft" did not work "nomodeset"
works but I
can only get 800x600.
Even worse, it appears that the latest Linux version of the proprietary
nvidia driver does not support this chip. It is listed as GT218 and not
on the list of supported chips at the Nvidia web site. Trying to use
this driver produces a message in Xorg.0.log that the NVIDIA chip could
not be initialized.
I'm using the nouveau driver but I did try to install the proprietary nVidia
one but it wouldn't install so I can confirm that.
Has anyone actually gotten Fedora 13 with X to run properly on one
of
these things? Right now mine is a paperweight. I'd try Ubuntu but I have
no reason to expect it would be any better; this doesn't really look
like a Fedora-specific issue, although a workaround might be.
--Greg
I might have a crack at Ubuntu. I'll try anything to get this machine off my
hands right now ;-)
Thanks,
Tony