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as subject says. boots fine if an external monitor is plugged in, otherwise the laptop screen just flashes white till it dies and reboots. lsmod says nouveau is loaded, however ...
  1. 06-09-2010 #1
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    fedora 13 does not recognise laptop display with nvidia installed

    as subject says. boots fine if an external monitor is plugged in, otherwise the laptop screen just flashes white till it dies and reboots.

    lsmod says nouveau is loaded, however it lets me rmmod it as though its not in use. rmmod on the nvidia mod says it is in use. nvidia settings can change the resolution of the external monitor

    used yum to install and built from scratch, both have the same result. reason i want to get rid of nouveau is because it detects my laptop resolution as larger than it is and even if i lower the resolution it still stretches it further than the boundries of the screen. without the nvidia driver my laptop display is recognised correctly aside from size issues.


    Enabling the nvidia driver / etc / rc.d / init.d / functions line 526 1484 Segmentation fault "$@"
    [FAILED]

    ^^ that appears during boot.
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    Have you removed nouveau option from kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

    Post the contents /etc/X11/xorg.conf file here.
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