On 10/29/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun October 29 2006 10:08 am, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 09:23 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > > I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it > > I installed NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6 > > On reboot, it gets all the way to the second X start and the > > screen then just goes black and nothing happens > > I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing "a" > > when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt > > - that didn't work > > Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to > > same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just > > a black screen > > Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result > > Try 'init 3' Ric It's getting worse. Now, it chokes on X on the first try, right after the kernel messages, when it tries to go into the splash screen with the progress bar for the boot process - it's just going black and stalling - there's a little LED hard drive activity, but it doesn't go anywhere - just the black void...
Is this problem specific to Livna's repackaging of the NVIDIA driver, or is it also present in the official driver package from NVIDIA's website? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
