NVidia from Livna seems to have broken X

[Claude Jones]

On Sun October 29 2006 10:08 am, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 09:23 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
> > I'm not seeing this exact issue, apologies if I missed it
> > I installed NVidia drivers from Livna on a working FC6
> > On reboot, it gets all the way to the second X start and the
> > screen then just goes black and nothing happens
> > I tried booting into runlevel 3 the old way by typing "a"
> > when the splash screen came up, and typing "3" at the prompt
> > - that didn't work
> > Next time I typed "runlevel3" at the prompt, and that led to
> > same result as above, but in a much shorter boot time - just
> > a black screen
> > Tried booting into runlevel1 with the same result
>
> Try 'init 3' Ric

It's getting worse. Now, it chokes on X on the first try, right 
after the kernel messages, when it tries to go into the splash 
screen with the progress bar for the boot process - it's just 
going black and stalling - there's a little LED hard drive 
activity, but it doesn't go anywhere - just the black void...
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA