From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: When anaconda starts the graphical part of the install with an nVidia GeForce FX 5600-based video card, 1: It doesn't detect it and uses the standard SVGA card 2: The video card stops sending signals to the monitor 3: The monitor acts as if the computer is off 4: The only thing I can do is reboot 5: Switching to console (Ctrl+Alt+F2) - it makes the switch, but wont recognise any keyboard input Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from Red Hat Linux 9 CD 1 2. Hit Enter at the boot prompt 3. The screen goes blank when it tries to switch to the graphical Anaconda Actual Results: The screen goes blank when it tries to switch to the graphical instaler (Anaconda) Expected Results: The graphical install should display, letting me use the graphical Red Hat Installer (Anaconda) Additional info: The system I am using: Pentium 4 2.6GHz with HT 512MB PC3200 DDR Ram 200GB Hard Drive nVidia GeForce FX 5600 graphics card Sony DVDRW DRU-510A Sony CDRW CRX-220E Diamond View DV172 LCD Monitor Microsoft wireless keyboard & mouse Windows XP Pro
Is there more than one output on the graphics card? Does it work if you try the other one? Does booting with 'linux nofb' help?
There is a DVI output and an analog output. It works on the DVI output, but there is something wrong with my monitor or my card, so there are problems (jagged edges, screen going blank & reappearing every few seconds). linux nofb doesn't help. Is there any way to use the analog output instead of the digital one?
The "nv" driver supplied by XFree86.org does not support LCD DFP displays except experimentally in XFree86 4.3.0. XFree86 4.4.0 will have more complete support for this hardware probably. I am going to investigate how much work might be required to backport the 4.4.0 driver to 4.3.0 sometime in the future.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88360 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.