Blank Screen After Yum Update (followup to Kevin Kempter) - Solved {sortof}

[Noel Murphy]

I did not, and I have no other card to swap in. I have a pci only  
mobo and any extra video cards I had were agp.
I admit that I didn't do too much to try and solve the problem  
either. This is problem was actually on my home brew pvr box (myth tv  
specifically) and my wife was getting pissy that it was down. I just  
did what was needed to get it back up and running and I now have to  
give myself a slap in the head everytime I think about doing updates.

I'm hoping that submitting my bug to the fedora bugzilla DB will get  
them to fix it, but I'm not sure how keen I'll be at trying out the  
fix when they do. When I was submitting this bug, I noticed some  
other Radeon specific bugs that have cropped up lately. Hopefully  
they are all related and someone is actually looking at them.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170873

Noel


On 16-Oct-05, at 9:25 PM, Roger Finks wrote:

> kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
>
>
>> On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:27, Noel Murphy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I joined the list after Kevin Kempter made a similar
>>> post about this problem just this morning so I couldn't respond to
>>> his posting.
>>>
>>> That being said.....
>>>
>>> I have the EXACT same problem as Kevin. However, I struggled with
>>> this issue a bit over the past few days and have discovered a bit  
>>> more.
>>>
>>> When I update everything, I get into the state like Kevin. My screen
>>> goes blank, in fact it goes into sleep mode. I can ssh into the
>>> machine and everything seems to work fine there, but when I do a
>>> shutdown / reboot, it never does. I think it gets hung trying to
>>> shutdown a service or something.
>>>
>>> Once I'm in this state, I can boot the machine using the FC4  
>>> shipping
>>> kernel (2.6.11....) and everything works again. (Kevin, you may want
>>> to try this if you don't need an up to date kernel). However, this
>>> didn't work for me because I needed a more current kernel for my tv-
>>> tuner card.
>>>
>>> If I upgrade my kernel to the latest (2.6.13...), but do not upgrade
>>> anything else, my machine works fine.
>>>
>>> So, it must be a combination of kernel + something else. I admit i
>>> didn't spend too much time trying to figure out what the "something"
>>> else was. I'm assuming it was something like the xorg stuff or maybe
>>> something in KDE.
>>>
>>> Kevin, are you running KDE? if not, maybe we could rule that out.
>>>
>>> How about hardware?
>>>
>>> I have a vanilla PC.
>>> Intel GLLY MoBo, but have the on board video disabled.
>>> ATI Radeon 7000, PCI
>>> 512 MB ram
>>> 2.2 GHz Celeron
>>>
>>> Noel
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Noel;
>>
>> I swapped out the video card and it works fine. The problem was  
>> with the ATI video card (I had the same one)
>>
>>
>>
> Kevin and Noel - I have the same problem with an ATI Radeon 7500  
> card. Did you come up with any resolution other than swaping the  
> card out?
>
> Roger
>
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