Strange Gnome Behavior After Rawhide 20080906 update

[Horst H. von Brand]

Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 at cox.net> wrote:
> >> Sven Lankes wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 06:57:48PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Here after thursday's (or so) updates I get a blank (no text, most icons
> >>>> gone) GDM, loging in blindly (this is the only account here) worked. After
> >>>> today's update not even that works, ctrl-alt-BS does nothing, ctrl-alt-DEL
> >>>> is broken too. Going through runlevel 3 and to X gives me a background and
> >>>> upper/lower blank icon bars. Only the power switch gets me out.
> >>> Sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461149
> >>> (that is - if you're using intel graphics).
> >>> For me reverting to xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-1 fixed the issue.
> >
> >> No.  ATI driver.  However, after one invocation of gnome/openbox,
> >> regular gnome came back ok subsequently.
> > intel i810 driver here. Reverted that an gdm, back to normal
> > [Koji should be advertised more for us rawhideans who ocacionally
> > need to
> >  step back....]

> Hmmmm...looking thru this thread, seems to be something different in
> two different graphics drivers and gdm.

Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

Here I get non-working gdm (just blank entry fields). Sometime it worked
(loged in blind), then not at all.

Lately (last xorg-x11-drv-i810?) the Gnome desktop hangs completely after
NetworkManager spins for a few rounds tring to get the WiFi network. Then
the CapsLock light blinks, and nothing works anymore.

>                                          What is common here?  Where
> to bz? For ati, the mach64 and r128 support was broken out into two
> separate drivers recently.  Seems an avenue to explore when time
> permits.
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