Re: New Kernel Image

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On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:11, Robert Locke wrote:
> 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
Thank you Rob.  Works for me.  AMD 2600+ and ATA 9200 AGP video.

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