rawhide report: 20080802 changes

[Tom London]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> kernel-2.6.27-0.208.rc1.git2.fc10
>> ---------------------------------
>> * Fri Aug  1 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie
>> <airlied at redhat.com>
>> - Fix ppc build with drm changes
>>
>> * Fri Aug  1 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie
>> <airlied at redhat.com>
>> - Fix ppc build again with drm changes
>>
>> * Fri Aug  1 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie
>> <airlied at redhat.com>
>> - Add initial radeon kernel modesetting jumbo patch
>>
> Newer kernel 208 does not fare any better than 205 one, cannot connect with it either :(
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers/61860
>
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.0.3-1.fc10
>> -------------------------------
>> * Fri Aug  1 18:00:00 2008 Peter Hutterer
>> <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 2.0.3-1
>> - evdev 2.0.3
>>
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.10-1.fc10
>> -----------------------------
>> * Fri Aug  1 18:00:00 2008 Adam Jackson
>> <ajax at redhat.com> 2.1.10-1
>> - nv 2.1.10
>>
>>
>
> One of these or both break X, neither KDE nor GNOME wants to come up :(
>
> What should I do?
>
> I removed the 205 kernel, but still 208 kernel does the exact same thing and cannot connect.
>
> TIA,
>
> Antonio
>
Have you tried reverting these packages to the previous versions?

Also, if you boot to runlevel 3 (by removing 'rhgb quiet' and adding a
3 to the grub boot parameters), and you login, can you bring up the
graphical UI by running 'startx'?

tom
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Tom London