On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:16:48AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:29 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > FC4-i386, latest updates. > > > > When I upgrade my kernel and reboot, the system attempts to run > > system-config-display during startup, and this prompts for the root > > password. I type that in but it's apparently not recognized, as I just get > > another prompt. After 3 failures, the system boots normally. I think this > > happening during the udev initialization. > > > > I'm using the latest nVidia driver for my 6800GT. > > > Did you recompile the nvidia driver after the kernel update and before > trying to boot back to graphics mode? > > With the last kernel update mine wanted to run system-config-display and > that reminded me to do the driver update as well. (I forced it to fail > out to text mode and did the driver update before I went back to > graphics mode.) system-config-display should not be running at boot. If you have nvidia drivers in use you should uninstall the drivers under the old kernel . Then boot the new kernel to init 3 and the re-install the drivers. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
