Graphics problem, unable to install, see pic!

[mb-dape]

Hi,

I am a linux newbie, I just have some basic experience with Fedora. So please have patience with me.

Trying to install Fedora 14 on a laptop. The first install screen shows up okay, the one with the text "Automatic boot" and countdown. Then the screen gets corrupt, the colours gets strange and it flickers. But you can see some of the GUI although the text is not readable. See the attached pic! (Dont worry about the pattern, its the GUI.)

The thing is, I have tried other dists too, with GNOME and KDE. Same problem everywhere.

But the computer has no problem with Windows and running Fedora in a WM is working okay. But I want a clean install.

What is the problem and how do I solve it?

Thanks a lot,
Daniel

[mb-dape]

Sorry, forgot to write that the laptop has a Nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 graphics card.

[Rubberman]

Very neat screen shot! You could show this in an art exhibit!

Anyway, I think FC14 uses the nouveau driver by default for nVidia cards these days. See if you can change the driver in the boot menu to "vesa" or "nv". That will at least let you get started and installed. Then you can install the proprietary nVidia driver which will work much better. The nouveau driver, though much better than the old nv driver, still has some nasty bugs that they are working out. For my money, the nouveau driver isn't stable enough yet, though as a fully open source driver project they have come a long way in a short time.

BTW, are you running just the install disc, or the liveCD/DVD?

[devils casper]

Your Graphics Card is not supporting default Graphics Driver "nouveau". You have to install Proprietary Driver.

Highlight Fedora title in GRUB Menu and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line and press 'e' again.
Add rdblacklist=nouveau at the end of line and hit 'Enter' key. Press 'b' and Fedora will boot up in command line mode.

Highlight Fedora title -- e -- select kernel line -- e -- type rdblacklist=nouveau -- hit Enter key -- b

If display works fine, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add rdblacklist=nouveau at end of kernel line. You won't have to edit GRUB Menu again.


Let's check exact Model and other details of your Graphics Card. Open Terminal and execute this

lspci | grep -i vga

Post output here.