On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:33 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 09/08/2010 07:59 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> Fully updated F13 kernel 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64 >> I have even tried upgrading to xorg-x11-drv-intel 2.12 from koji ajax >> build (no joy) >> >> The boot process fails launching X. It keeps showing >> >> init.orig: prefdm main process ended respawning >> init.orig: prefdm main process [1913] terminated with status 1 >> >> until it says respawning too fast, stopped >> >> I have tried setting an xorg.conf file and also without it (no joy) >> > Robert, what's this init.orig???? > The init process is just called init, > not init.orig. > How many init programs do you have in /sbin ?? > Is /sbin/init a symlink to /sbin/init.orig? Not sure. That's just what is displayed on the screen before it dies. Ah now that I think of it it's probably the custom version of init DRBL is using. DRBL is the diskless system I am using. See http://drbl.org/ > > anyhow... moving on... > > So, the reason prefdm re-spawns so fast is > because gdm starts and dies causing prefdm > to restart in order to respawn gdm. > > Why is gdm dying? It is because the Intel driver > you selected in your xorg.conf has a serious bug. Again not sure. I think X is crashing, read the Xorg log I pasted. Unfortunately, I read you cannot issue nomodeset to the kernel at boot in F13. > > Could you try to use the generic vga driver? > You do that by editing your xorg.conf and setting > the driver to vga (instead of intel). > and restart. Yes I already tried using "vesa" in xorg.conf. It works but it's completely unusable for students in terms of performance (very slow) and look as monitors are all widescreen lcd. > > Let us know. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
