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Installation issues / Re: AVWizard not displaying correctly

« on: September 14, 2007, 03:41:14 pm »

By the way, where do I change this value?
Can I do it directly from the prompt where the AV wizard fails?

The values are held in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I would assume that on a net boot machine you can still use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access the linux console and log in with

user: linuxmce
passord: linuxmce

Note: For me the AVWizard did not fail. It just did not appear (black screen). I think it was still running, but the video was being sent to nowhere! On pressing Ctlr+Alt+F1 there was a short delay (1-2 secs) before the login prompt appeared.

I used

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sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf to edit the file and why not make a backup too before you edit it. 

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sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070914
Good luck!

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Installation issues / Re: AVWizard not displaying correctly

« on: September 14, 2007, 02:37:48 pm »

I ran into blank screen issues with my GeForce 6200 card when it reached the AVWizard. This was with a monitor connected to the VGA port. Pressing the numer keys did not help, so I dropped into console (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and had a look at the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11

The problem was caused by the entry under Section "Device",

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"This seemed to push the video signal out to somewhere other than the VGA? However this only happened when trying to use the nvidia driver. When the AVWizard is run it inserts this Option automatically so
I changed the driver setting from

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Driver "nvidia" to

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Driver "nv" and rebooted. Now I could see the AVWizard.

I then stepped through the wizard and set the user interface to UI2. This of course failed once the Orbitors were generated but by this time my xorg.conf file was generated. I dropped back into the console, edited the xorg.conf file and set the

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Driver "nv" back to

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Driver "nvidia" and commented out the

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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Rebooted and all was well.