> Slava Bizyayev wrote: > > >I use kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 on my HP OmniBook XE2 pretty happily. > >After updating kernel to kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 I experience a strange > >behavior -- in the end of the boot (instead of X-login screen) machine > >freezes, and I cannot even get the terminal access with ctrl-alt-F1. Has > >someone experienced something similar? What's the work around? On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:25, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > THANKS to John DeDourek. > > Look at following post by John. It offers me a quick fix. try to stop > the default boot. Prior to boot, edit the boot command option, remove > rhgb from the boot command line. It will boot without the graphic boot > window. After started, edit grub.conf file, remove rhgb option. > > Good luck, > Yuandan > > > [clip...] > > The rhgb thing was introduced to show a "prettier" view while booting, > Apparently the rhgb provides the pretty image by firing up an X server > early in the boot > process, or in any case switching to graphical mode on the display > adapter. However, > the "full desktop" can't be introduced that early in the boot process. > If using the default > login style (known as run level 5) then at some point the "early X > server" must be shut > down and the "real X server" fired up during the boot process. Prior to > FC3, it was > done in the order just stated, i.e. stop X, start X. Unfortunately, > this leaves a fraction > of a second where the display has gone from graphical mode to text mode > and then > back to graphical mode, causing an annoying flicker in the screen. > > Apparently, starting with FC3 (or some update of it), the order was > reversed. The > "early X server" is started on one "virtual console". Then later in the > boot process, > the "real X server" is started on another "virtual console". Then the > screen is switched > from the early to the late console; this results in very little flicker > because both of these > consoles are in graphical mode. Then the "early X server" is stopped. > > This, unfortunately results in a brief period when two graphical mode X > servers are > running in parallel on separate virtual consoles. Apparently this is no > problem for > some video card drivers. On the other hand, some programmers of video card > drivers never considered that the driver might be called on to maintain > two virtual > consoles simultaneously. This sounds very realistic for me. So, I just edited /etc/sysconfig/init commenting 'GRPHICAL=yes' line, and this did the trick -- I have no problem since then. Thanks to everyone, -- Slava -- http://www.dynagzip.com/ +44(0)208-923-5913 AIM: SlavaBizyayev +44(0)794-766-4131 - mobile slava@xxxxxxxx http://www.lastmileisp.com/
