On Tuesday 15 February 2005 12:00 pm, Paul Howarth wrote:
powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Paul, as stated, this happens with any kernel. I guess I'm using whatever nVidia drivers that Fedora recognized the 1st time I installed/booted. Why does this happen with only some kernels..? Shouldn't the developers be looking out for this kind of thing..? Damn annoying.
P.S. I don't think it was just the kernel that was updated, as I did a yum update. Cheers.
OK, so it sounds like you're not using the proprietary nvidia drivers. Can you boot to runlevel 3 without problems (press "e" in the grub menu and append " 3" to end of the line, then press return to boot)?
Knoppix 3.7 to the rescue, again
What do you have in the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" EndSection
Nothing proprietary there then. Try booting to runlevel 3 (press "e" at the grub prompt and add " 3" to the end of the boot command line, then press return to boot). Log in as any user (assuming it gets that far) and try:
$ startx >X.out 2>X.err
Then look in X.out and X.err to see if there are any useful diagnostics.
P.S. Your computer's clock/timezone appears to be around 14 hours fast.
I'm in Tokyo, could that be why..? Cheers.
Your email's Date: header says:
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:37:05 -0500
Is that the right time and timezone offset for where you are?
Paul.
