On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:19 -0500, Ernest wrote: > New Kernel image 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 > is causing problems with gdm. > > After boot: > the kernel is running, but gdm has crashed at the point where a user > login screen should appear. > All that appears is a blue background speckled with white dots. It > might be that gdm has not crashed, but the boot process has left > something in an incompatible state. > > It is possible to login to this machine, from another desktop, using > ssh. Once logged onto the fedora system and issuing the command > "gdm-restart", the gdm user login screen appears on the fedora system > console. > > What has changed between 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 > and 2.6.14-1.1656.FC4? > > Where do I start? > What information is needed? > > System is an older Gateway PIII, 384MB RAM, ATI Radeon graphics card > in the AGP slot. > X.org detects and configures this video card properly. The earlier > kernel worked fine, until the system was booted with kernel 2.6.15-1. > Now kernel 2.6.14-1 exhibits the same problem. > You might want to check the archives for the last couple of days. The problem for some, like me, is actually with the new udev, that was installed along with the new kernel. In fact, a simple terminal switch was enough to get my gdm login visible. Ctrl-Alt-F1 followed by Ctrl-Alt-F7. If it is the same as my problem, you may notice that the text mode terminal login is tiny print, something about probing and activating fb.... I fixed mine with an update that should be released shortly to module-init-tools. You can get it early by doing the following: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update module-init-tools Good luck, --Rob
