On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:27, Noel Murphy wrote: > Hi All, > > Unfortunately, I joined the list after Kevin Kempter made a similar > post about this problem just this morning so I couldn't respond to > his posting. > > That being said..... > > I have the EXACT same problem as Kevin. However, I struggled with > this issue a bit over the past few days and have discovered a bit more. > > When I update everything, I get into the state like Kevin. My screen > goes blank, in fact it goes into sleep mode. I can ssh into the > machine and everything seems to work fine there, but when I do a > shutdown / reboot, it never does. I think it gets hung trying to > shutdown a service or something. > > Once I'm in this state, I can boot the machine using the FC4 shipping > kernel (2.6.11....) and everything works again. (Kevin, you may want > to try this if you don't need an up to date kernel). However, this > didn't work for me because I needed a more current kernel for my tv- > tuner card. > > If I upgrade my kernel to the latest (2.6.13...), but do not upgrade > anything else, my machine works fine. > > So, it must be a combination of kernel + something else. I admit i > didn't spend too much time trying to figure out what the "something" > else was. I'm assuming it was something like the xorg stuff or maybe > something in KDE. > > Kevin, are you running KDE? if not, maybe we could rule that out. > > How about hardware? > > I have a vanilla PC. > Intel GLLY MoBo, but have the on board video disabled. > ATI Radeon 7000, PCI > 512 MB ram > 2.2 GHz Celeron > > Noel Hi Noel. I tried to run the most recent previously installed kernel and got the same blank screen behavior. I am running KDE. It's a generic Dell server-class box with an ATI Raedon 7000, PCI 1G ram 2G Pentium Maybe its the ATI card I seem to have the same card as you...
