On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 23:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Dan Hensley wrote: > > >Why is it that FC4 overwrites my xorg.conf on a kernel update? > > > >The process for me is that I do a yum update, and install the new > >kernel. I then reboot into initlevel 3, update my nVidia driver, and > >then telinit 5 for a normal login. After I shut down and restart the > >machine, my xorg.conf gets overwritten by a default file. At this point > >my keyboard and mouse do not work correctly for the graphical login, and > >I have to hit the reset button on my computer and repeat the initlevel 3 > >and fix the xorg.conf file. > > > >How do I keep FC4 from doing this incredibly annoying thing? > > > > > My guess is that you installed the proprietary Nvidia driver and did a > yum update which included a new kernel got installed for which a > equivalent Nvidia module was not available. The Nvidia package probably > has some logic in it to check whether a equivalent module is available > and if not rewrite xorg.conf to fallback on the Xorg open source 'nv' > driver included in Fedora. There might be some packaging bug that does > it incorrectly causing your X login to fail. You have to report that to > the package maintainers if thats the case. The order of events was, 1. yum update to install the new kernel. 2. Reboot, runlevel 3. 3. Run sh NVIDIA*.run to install the nVidia proprietary drivers. 4. Verify xorg.conf. No changes, everything is fine. 5. telinit 5. Everything is fine. 6. Reboot. My xorg.conf has been blasted, and I have to hit the Reset button to recover. Which package would I submit the bug report against? Note that I used the exact same procedure on my old computer running FC3, and I never had this problem. Dan > > regards > Rahul > >
