2008/7/7 Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Saturday 05 July 2008 16:06:32 Antonio M wrote: > >> So are you saying that you tried the existing alternative kernel, offered >> in >> grub, but that no longer worked? That would be very peculiar indeed. >> >> OK - I've read your bug report. I don't believe that there is any way >> that >> installing a new kernel would break the existing ones. You almost >> certainly >> have something else going on. You may well have to wait to see whether >> anyone else identifies the problem. FWIW, 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 is one of >> the >> kernels you mention, and it certainly works on my Fedora box. > > Anne: > > Please see some of my contribution to this thread. > > I'm having a similar issue to Antonio's...I've got a fully updated F9 > install, and I noted that as of a couple of kernel releases ago, my > workstation, which boots to runlevel 5, does not actually appear to start > up the X desktop either. Instead, it switches to TTY7 with a blank screen > and blinking cursor. > > What I need to do, to get around this, is ALT-F1, log in, init 3 and then > init 5 in order to get the system to actually bring up the X login screen. > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org > > To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: > > https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update > > or send a blank email message to: > > site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Mike, have you read my final report saying that I have eventually solved the problem??? It was a graphic driver from test-updates that was causing the problem: now I have gone back to a fully F9 system and evrrything is o.k. For my info, which graphic card do you use??? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list