Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Tony Molloy
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 ha

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Millett
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

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > iommu=soft > > will get it going. The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) Is this actually a 64-bit machine? So far I have not been able to get the x86+64 DVD to load. I get a blank screen right after the ISOLINUX title. --Greg

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-24 Thread Greg Woods
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 syst

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-25 Thread Greg Woods
I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. There is something about the recent kernels; I can't get it to work at anywhere near the resolution it is capable of with either nouveau or the Nvidia proprietary driver. I did get Fedora 12 to work. It was a convoluted process. The installer worked

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-26 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) My first problem was that I was using what I thought was an install DVD, but turned out to be a live DVD. Also, these machine

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
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"

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 24 August 2010 15:30:20 Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > > iommu=soft > > > > will get it going. The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) > > Is this actually a 64-bit machine? So far I have not been able to get > the x86+64 DVD to load

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
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

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 16:51:16 Greg Woods wrote: > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. There is something > about the recent kernels; I can't get it to work at anywhere near the > resolution it is capable of with either nouveau or the Nvidia > proprietary driver. > > I did get F

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Thursday 26 August 2010 18:12:30 Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. > > I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) > Following your suggestions I've also got it working at 1440x

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 24 August 2010 15:30:20 Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 06:54 -0500, Brian Millett wrote: > > iommu=soft > > > > will get it going. The newer kernels (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64) > > Is this actually a 64-bit machine? So far I have not been able to get > the x86+64 DVD to load

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Millett
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 13:11 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > Following your suggestions I've also got it working at 1440x900 > > What I did was booted it non-graphically, did a full update so I had > the > latest kernel. Install the nVidia driver from the rpmfusion repos > > yum install akmod-nvidia

Re: Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:12 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:51 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. > > I did finally get it installed, and it was a convoluted process :-) > > I say "mostly works" because I have not been able to get th