From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030424 Chimera/0.7+ Description of problem: When running the graphical installer, X runs, but doesn't display. The nv driver doesn't detect the output port correctly, and tries to display to the analog VGA port. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD 1 2. choose the ordinary install (graphical) 3. anaconda detects a gf4, and starts X Actual Results: blank screen on monitor Expected Results: display of graphical installer Additional info: There are a couple of workarounds: 1) plug monitor into the analog port (only works if you have an analog VGA monitor though) 2) use fbdev. This displays okay on whatever the BIOS booted on. There are also a couple of fixes until the nv driver in XF86 is fixed to autodetect output port correctly: 1) use the nvidia binary driver 2) add two lines to the Device "nv" section. I don't have them right here, but IIRC, they are Option "FlatPanel" "true", and Option "CrtcNumber" "0" or "1" (I found out which one works on mine by guess work :(
Adding the extra options would have to be handled by redhat-config-xfree86 and rhpl. Also it would seem X needs to just do the right thing here w/o intervention.
DVI detection was not implemented completely in the XFree86 4.3.0 'nv' driver release, and was only experimental. The current release of X11 we are shipping in Fedora Core has enhanced support for DVI on Nvidia hardware. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained at (http://fedora.redhat.com). If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.