Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Tue Feb 15 18:58:37 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:57, powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 11:44 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> > > I gotta say, someone is NOT doing their testing very well. I just
> > > updated Fedora2, and now I cant access the login screen. Just get a
> > > black screen where the screen should be. What are my options. Cheers.
> > >
> > > EDIT: I gotta add that this' the 2nd time this has happened after a YUM
> > > update with Fedora2. Last time, I had to reinstall...won't be a happy
> > > camper if I gotta do again..this happens when booting from any
> > > kernel...now coming to you from Knoppix3.7
> >
> > Let me guess: you use the nvidia proprietary drivers and you've got a
> > new kernel?
> >
> > Does booting the old kernel still work?
> >
> > Paul.
>
>  Hi All,
>
> Paul, as stated, this happens with any kernel. I guess I'm using whatever
> nVidia drivers that Fedora recognized the 1st time I installed/booted. Why
> does this happen with only some kernels..? Shouldn't the developers be
> looking out for this kind of thing..? Damn annoying.
>

I agree but in this case its not the fedora developers it is the xorg guys
As stated in another post this evening the 3D in xorg is terrible.
I f you have some bandwidth and savy switch to xfree ver 4 and your 3d will be 
super.

> P.S. I don't think it was just the kernel that was updated, as I did a yum
> update. Cheers.

Quite right a few lib get done to like libglx and if you installed the nv 
driver from dag then you probably missed the nv kernel update:
Often what happens is the kernel is upgraded to the lastest on fedora but dag 
falls behind in the nv driver rpms,



>
> Mark Sargent.

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