2008/7/3 Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> 2008/7/3 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> I updated Fedora 9 short ago (my system is fully upand when I >>> re-booted I get the complete graphical procedure and then a blank >>> screen!!!! >>> I re-booted in runlevel 3 and I issued a startx and everything went >>> fine. >>> What is wrong???? >>> I am uing intel graphic driver, with iwl3945 wireless adapter. >>> Furtehrmore, after a while the system freezes. >>> What is going on???? >>> >>> -- >>> Antonio Montagnani >>> Skype : antoniomontag >>> >> >> I apologize for so much mistyping :-) >> Anyway I re-booted in runlevel 3 and with kernel 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.i686 >> and so far I have not experienced any freezing (I will check again but >> I think that system froze after Firefox start-up) >> For the blank screen issue, what is the component to be filed against? >> Bad news as system froze anyway during firefox use. >> I guess that all issues are strictly connected. > > With regard to the "blank screen"...I'm assuming that is happening after > the graphical boot sequence...the one that shows all the various service > starting, etc. > > I'm running into the same issue, using an Nvidia card. > > It's not an indication that the system is frozen...it's that the system > switched to TTY7, which is where the graphical environment is supposed to > start. > > Instead, all I do is press ALT-F1 to get to the first console terminal, > log in, run "sudo init 3" to bring the system to runlevel 3 (text only > mode), then "sudo init 5 ; exit" to bring the system back to runlevel 5 > (graphical mode) and then exit that particular shell. > > The system then comes up with the login for the GUI desktop. > > I do wonder if it has to do with the desktop environment selected. I run > KDE (don't have Gnome installed)...which desktop environment are you > using? > > -- > Mike Burger > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Mike Alt-F1 is not working on my system!!! so our problems are not completely similar. -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
