On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 21:28 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > 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. > Have you installed the Livna Nvidia package at any time? It adds to /etc/rc.d/init.d an nvidia-glx file which is one of the very few ways that things would be changed on a reboot. If you have gone back to the nvidia procedure, remove that package. > 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 > > > > > -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
