On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jake Peavy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Jake Peavy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jake Peavy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Frank Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On 15/06/09 18:46, Jake Peavy wrote: >>>> >>>>> All, >>>>> >>>>> Was going to put F11 on my Dell XPS710, but neither Anaconda installer >>>>> (on x86_64 installation DVD) nor x86 LiveUSB bring up video. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Did you try basic mode Xdriver=vesa on the dvd, >>>> >>> >>> Yes, to no avail (X startup failed) >>> >>> I could certainly install in text mode >>> >> >> Anyone have any ideas on this? Is anyone running F11 on GeForce 8800GTX? >> >> The text-based install doesn't install any of the GUI stuff. I thought I >> could just reconfigure once I got booted up. >> > > This post <http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=223212#2>describes > my issue exactly. Dual 8800GTXs seems to be the problem. > > Any suggestions other than removing the second 8800 temporarily would be > welcome. > The problem appears to be that X requires the two video cards to be identified in xorg.conf with their PCI BusIDs. Because of the problems I have experienced, originally I was only able to install in text mode, but, as the guy at fedoraforum mentioned, for some !&*@&*%$ reason, you don't get to partition the drive when you install in this mode and it took the whole volume. So it's been a struggle so far, but I want to repartition. I could probably use gparted but I can't remember if it can resize LVM. Or I could re-install, provided I'm somehow able to provide my own xorg.conf to Anaconda. So is that possible? Can a user supply a custom xorg.conf to Anaconda? For the record, this has been a real goddamned nuisance and IMHO certainly not something a so-called "average user" could have taken on. -- -jp If I had a mineshaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com
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