X broke on me with recent updates. Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? When I downgrade from xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 X started working again. Symptom: my login screen is blank. Ctrl-Alt-F2 works so at least some of X is working. I intend to Bugzilla this but more info from list subscribers would be useful. Longer story: Last night I updated my desktop. After reboot, the display is blank. Fedora 10 is running -- I'm typing this on a text console. But X isn't working. It seems that the problem was created by updates that were made available between 2009 Feb 3 @ 1:30AM EST (the date of my previous update) and 2009 Feb 7 @ 23:03 EST (this update). According to /var/log/yum.log, these are the xorg packages that were updated: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.10.0-1.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.1-1.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.3-1.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.3.2-1.fc10.x86_64 Sadly, yum.log does not seem to say what version was replaced. My bet is that the ati driver is the problem. Perhaps the previous version of drv-ati was: Dec 26 01:48:16 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 Where are you supposed to find old update packages? xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.x86_64 is not on the original F10 DVD nor is it in up to date update mirrors. This would seem to be a bit problem. Luckily I found it on a slow-to-mirror mirror. I'm looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and comparing it with the log from the working setup. I will show the chunks of differences that I think are interesting. I did "diff -u Xorg.0.log.old Xorg.0.log" so lines prefixed by - are old, lines prefixed by + are new, and lines prefixed by a space are common. | (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation" |- compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.9.0 |+ compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0 The ATI driver went from 6.9.0.something to 6.10.0.something | (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so |- compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.9.0 |+ compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 6.10.0 I think that this is just the same thing. |-(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598) |+(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT" (ChipID = 0x9598) Looks like a typo got fixed. I actually quoted this to show what my display hardware is. It is called an "Asus EAH3650 Silent Magic". | (II) RADEON(0): Port0: | Monitor -- AUTO | Connector -- HDMI-B |- DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC |+ DAC Type -- None | TMDS Type -- UNIPHY | DDC Type -- 0x7e50 I don't know what this means. I'm not sure which connector number I'm using. The card has no HDMI connector. It has two DVI connectors and an S-Video connector. One of the DVI connectors is Dual-Link, and that is what I'm using (my monitor requires dual-link). | (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 |-Dac detection success |+invalid output device for dac detection This doesn't look good. | (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 |-Dac detection success |+invalid output device for dac detection Seems like a repeat. Why? | (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output HDMI-0 | (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0 | (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: DEL Model: 4016 Serial#: 1194472500 I guess that means that my monitor is connected to DVI-0. |-Output DIG2 dpms success |+Output DIG0 dpms success Does this difference mean anything? It appears three times for some reason. | Set CRTC 0 Source success |-(II) RADEON(0): DIG2: Coherent Mode enabled |-Output DIG2 setup success |+Output DIG1 encoder setup success |+(II) RADEON(0): DIG2 transmitter: Coherent Mode enabled | Output DIG2 transmitter setup success |-Output DIG2 dpms success |+Output DIG0 dpms success | Enable CRTC memreq 0 success This seems confusing. Why does the new config ever mention DIG2 when it seems to have renumbered DIG2 to DIG0? | Set CRTC 0 Source success |-(II) RADEON(0): DIG2: Coherent Mode disabled |-Output DIG2 setup success |+Output DIG1 encoder setup success |+(II) RADEON(0): DIG2 transmitter: Coherent Mode enabled | Output DIG2 transmitter setup success |-Output DIG2 dpms success |+Output DIG0 dpms success Similarly confusing. There are some keyboard-related diffs, but I don't think that they are relevant. | (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 |-Dac detection success |-(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output HDMI-0 |-(II) RADEON(0): EDID for output DVI-0 |-(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: DEL Model: 4016 Serial#: 1194472500 | ... |-(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz) |-(II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 |+invalid output device for dac detection Lots and lots of juicy lines missing after update. | (II) RADEON(0): Output: HDMI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0 |-Dac detection success |+invalid output device for dac detection This sequence appears a bunch of times. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines