Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Hongwei Li um 20:52: > We have a fc1 linux with kernel 2.4.22-1.2188 and 2.4.22-1.2194 installed. > The X-window was working well with kernel 2.4.22-1.2188. This morning, I > ran up2date to get kernel 2.4.22-1.2194, installation went through without > error. However, after reboot, the X-window cannot start. The monitor > shows the text-mode login screen, then a sound of clicking, then black, > then the text-mode login screen, then a sound of clicking, ... endless. I > restart the system and select kernel 2.4.22-1.2188, X-window cannot start > either now, the same as above. > > It seems that the monitor has been damaged by kernel 2.4.22-1.2194. I > could test another monitor on it, but before doing that, I want to know > how to set the system starting with a pure text mode, then I can probe a > new monitor to prevent it from burned. No, the kernel did not damage anything with the monitor. > Hongwei Li I could bet that you with the previous kernel used NVidia or ATI closed source drivers. Now with a different kernel there is no such driver, because the driver is kernel dependent. You will have to rebuild the proprietary driver and X is running again. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435 Serendipity 21:24:01 up 1 day, 20:02, load average: 0.57, 0.45, 0.38
