On Tuesday 24 August 2010 12:54:08 Brian Millett wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:32 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Fedora-13 on a Dell E6410 laptop. This has an NVidia
> Quadro NVS 3100M graphics card. The install goes fine .
>
> When I boot with the "nomodeset" kernel boot parameter I only get 800x600
> resolution.
>
> If I leave out the "nomodeset" parameter I get a blank screen.
>
> Does anybody have the magic incantations to get this graphics card
> recognised with reasonable resolution.
>
> I've tried with the live CD and get a blank screen also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
iommu=soft
will get it going. The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) have
fixed the bug that caused the screen to go blank so the 'iommu=soft' is
not needed after you get updated.
Hi,
Sorry for being so late with my reply but I was off work sick for the last few
days.
I tried your suggestion.
I booted with nomodeset set and did a full update to the latest packages.
Linux bleisce2.csis.ul.ie 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 22:53:15
UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I then rebooted with the latest kernel and nomodeset set and got 800x600
resolution.
I then rebooted with iommu=soft set and got a "mistuned TV" screen. You can
see the login box in the background and you can actually login but the screen
stays like a "mistuned TV"
Thanks,
Tony