Re: New boot failure

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On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Mario Guenterberg wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:09:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >> My shiney new F13-beta 64 bit install on my HP dv5120u laptop is now
>> >> failing, losing all response to a plugged in mouse, the touch pad and
>> >> keyboard at about the time it draws the bottom bar on the screen,
>> >> showing only the 4 workspace icons and the trash can.  No other
>> >> buttons or menu icons get drawn.
>> >
>> >Same thing happened here.
>> >
>> >Are you using f13-beta with compiz?  There is a bug in xorg that locks
>> >up the display and keyboard when using compiz.  The fix is here:
>> >
>> >  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/80940
>> >
>> >or in short grab the relevent xorg files and do a "yum --localinstall"
>> >of them.
>>
>> yum --localinstall?  yum has no such option there, used rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>> after wgetting the files.
>
>A little hint: use yum localinstall (without --), and optional with
>--nogpgcheck for unsigned packages. It resolves dependecies
>automatically.
>
In that event, the friggin help screen is worthless.  Sigh.

Thanks Mario.

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