Quick note: Installing Fedora on an Asus Intel i5 w/ nVidia fails unless….


I'm installing on an asus A53S at work using fedora 14.  I won't use Fedora 15 until they clean up the gnome 3 fiasco (I want my old workflow, not something cool just to be cool).  The installation fails when it tries to launch X.  If you don't want a stripped down system (ie by using the "text" option to the boot commands) then you need to use the following options to get a standard vesa display.

blacklist=nouveau xdriver=vesa usefbx

The first option disables use of the open source nvidia driver.  The second tells the installation to use VESA but without the framebuffer driver you still may not get things working.  Leaving any of these out can cause the X display to lock up.  At least this way you get a full X environment, after which you can attempt to get nVidia's drivers working with this.

 

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