On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:44, Paul Howarth wrote:
> powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I gotta say, someone is NOT doing their testing very well. I just updated
> > Fedora2, and now I cant access the login screen. Just get a black screen
> > where the screen should be. What are my options. Cheers.
> >
> > EDIT: I gotta add that this' the 2nd time this has happened after a YUM
> > update with Fedora2. Last time, I had to reinstall...won't be a happy
> > camper if I gotta do again..this happens when booting from any
> > kernel...now coming to you from Knoppix3.7
>
> Let me guess: you use the nvidia proprietary drivers and you've got a
> new kernel?
>
> Does booting the old kernel still work?
>
> Paul.
Thanks for reminding me, Paul
The problem with the Nvidia is the AGP settings.
Of course this is determined by wether or not you installed the nvidia
drivers.
If you mainboard has and via or sis chipset then your agp settings are wrong.
I would suggest the following
Reset machine
at grub promt edit the kernel line and add "init 3"
press enter and "b" to boot
once booted
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
go down to the device section containing the entry
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Nvidia bla bla"
Options "NvAGP" "1"
EndSection
Which tell the driver to use the internal driver if I'm correct
Cheers
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