On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:57 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:52 -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > > > > > >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. > > I've never installed the Livna package. I'm thinking of putting my own > process init.d just to make sure the xorg.conf file stops getting > clobbered, but that's just a bandaid. My next suggestion would be to grep through all the /etc/init.d files looking for something referencing xorg.conf. (Maybe make that all files in the rc.d directory tree). There are not many other places that things could be changed by a reboot. A last minute thought. Immediately before the Reboot in step 6, verify the integrity of xorg.conf. X probably keeps the file open, so if it is rewritten by someone before this point, X will keep using the old version until it is closed and reopened. Maybe try restarting X by logging out and in, or with ctl-alt-backspace. -- Graham Campbell <gc1111@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
