Bug 239173

Summary:	PC monitor shows blank screen & ""CANNOT DISPLAY THIS VIDEO MODE, CHANGE COMPUTER DISPLAY INPUT TO 1024X768@60Hz".
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	j <johnson.koh>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-nv	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6	CC:	mcepl
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2007-08-16 22:51:32 UTC	Type:	---
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Description j 2007-05-05 15:51:25 UTC

Description of problem:

I have no prior experience in Linux. 

I am using HP XW4400 Workstation, graphic card is Nvidia Quadro550 (PCIe card). 
I am trying to install Linux OS. 

I installed DISC 1~3 of FC6 ISO image files, as per instructed. Everything went 
smoothly. The next step is to "reboot". During this reboot phase, the GNU GRUB 
version 0.97 was executing the system checks. I could see "Starting udev", 
before the LCD monitor went blank and showed me this error message - "CANNOT 
DISPLAY THIS VIDEO MODE, CHANGE COMPUTER DISPLAY INPUT TO 1024X768@60Hz". 

I hardware reset my PC. At the GRUB page, I added "3" at the end of this line 
as follows:
grub edit> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quite 3

Then I boot my PC. the system check shows more details now. then it reaches the 
command line - localhost login & password; which i entered my password.

At [root@localhost ~]#, I entered "init 3" - this brought me to the Setup Agent 
text page. 

Then I returned to [root@localhost ~]#, I entered "init 5" , it shows me blank 
screen with the same error message "- "CANNOT DISPLAY THIS VIDEO MODE, CHANGE 
COMPUTER DISPLAY INPUT TO 1024X768@60Hz". 

I was told that it could be videocard compatibility issue. I tried with more 
than 1 LCD & CRT PC monitor.

I read the HP & Nvidia websites but I could not find a solution. I downloaded a 
HP Driver for Linux ISO image file and Graphic Driver Update file (nvidia-9746-
1.0.i386.rpm), but I do not know how to use them.

WOuld you guys kindly advise me how I should resolve this problem? Looking 
forward to your good advice as I have to setup Linux platform to support my 
Mass storage requirement for my customer.




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Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2007-05-07 15:59:24 UTC

*** Bug 239175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2007-05-07 15:59:44 UTC

*** Bug 239174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2007-05-11 21:13:40 UTC

Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the affected system.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2007-07-12 20:33:56 UTC

You can certainly try to run on Grub command line vesa or in the runlevel 3 run
system-config-display and setup vesa for the card.

Nevertheless, please, give us that log file mentioned in the comment 3 , please.
We cannot proceed without it, and I would have to close this bug without it.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2007-08-16 22:51:32 UTC

No information about reproducing this bug on current distro, so I close this bug
as NOTABUG (anymore). Reporter, if you could, please, reopen with additional
information.