On Saturday 27 November 2004 21:31, Trevor Smith wrote: >OK, I saw a note from someone pointing to a blurb on the fedorafaq > about how to upgrade to "new" ATI drivers for FC2 (I thought). I > have never had a problem with using yum and the livna repositories > before so I thought, "what can it hurt?" The yum install or update, > whichever it was, reported complete success without warning or > error. > >Now my laptop boots to a text login prompt instead of its old > graphical login prompt and when I login, I get just the bash shell > instead of kde as before. I don't actually know what *should* be > done after logging into text command shell so I tried "startx" as a > shot in the dark, but got a page of info, ending with an error and > that's it. I'm stuck in the 1970's. > >So now my laptop is unusable (to me) since I have no significant >Internet software that I can use from a command prompt and I am > forced to boot to WinXP to ask: How do I back out of this update I > performed (via yum)? Or am I shot and must I now spend days trying > to figure out how the rpm system or, worse, how the X system works? > >help! :-( You can start by posting your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, after you have looked at it and verified that its reporting a failure you don't know how to fix. Often the log is so self-explanatory it turns into a forehead slapper. :-) You can probably do that posting with mutt, an email agent that runs on a plain old bash shell. But I'm like you, that would be a last resort. It probably isn't that crippled but on a bash shell it's "different". -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
