On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:03 am, Paul Howarth wrote: > powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. Hi All, ok, thanx , Paul, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Time is 1.20am here on Fri the 18th. Cheers. Mark Sargent.
