Fedora 17 Hangs in grub - Wrong video driver

[tbrooke]

I used the preupgrade method with no problem to go from Fedora 16 to 17 and it worked find until I decided to add the video drivers

The problem (I bleieve) is that I installed an nvidia driver when my Thinkpad t400s uses Intel video drivers

So now it hangs on boot when it get to the loading Initial ram disc (In tiny letters)

My system is dual boot with WIndows on the primary hardrive and Fedora on an SSD drive


I think the problem is the wrong driiver

I have tried using rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 and nouveau.noaccel=1

as kernel options in my grub without any luck

I am not sure what to do next - I have the liveusb USB and I thought I could log into my SSD drive and simply uninstall the driver but I can't get to the drive - Or If I could start without the nvidia driver I could get in and remove it

Any suggestions?

[george_toolan]

Which driver did you install exactly?

nouveau is the free driver, but if you installed the nvidia proprietary driver then it probably doesn't care about any of your "nouveau" settings.

Try to boot in runlevel 3 and remove the driver. Maybe also remove rhgb and quiet from the command line.

[DBelton]

I believe some of the thinkpads were ones with issues booting with a SSD, so the issue may not be with the video drivers. (also, where it is hanging, that doesn't sound like a video driver to me, anyway)

[tbrooke]

Thank You the login with level 3 did it and I simply removed the driver. The wrong diver was the nvidia driver and it is an Intel chipset so it was the intel video driver

Still runs a little slow but it is OK>

[tashirosgt]

It's an interesting question whether doing an rpm install or manual install of the nvidia driver makes it some sort of "default" driver that will be used regardless of what hardware is detected. I've never installed the nvidia driver, so I don't know. Does installation of the nvidia driver rewrite an xorg.conf file somewhere?

I suppose if you installed the nvidia driver and didn't delete the nouveau driver then there would have to be some change that caused the driver selection logic to prefer the nvidia driver. Is it possible to implement this preference - as opposed to implementing an iron clad rule that the nvidia driver must be used?